Endoscopy prep—getting ready for a colonoscopy or upper GI endoscopy—can be intimidating and a bit nerve-racking. During an ...

The American College of Physicians Clinical Guidelines Committee has released a new evidence-based clinical policy paper revising the guidelines for upper endoscopy use in most patients. During the ...

Members of the medical community, certain medical device manufacturers and government regulatory agencies are allowing patients to spend an extra $15 billion dollars a year by allowing unnecessary, ...

Administering a lidocaine lollipop as a single-agent anesthetic to patients undergoing an upper gastrointestinal endoscopy procedure eliminated the need for sedation in the majority of patients. Upper ...

When the upper part of your digestive system messes up, doctors use upper endoscopy to diagnose, and sometimes treat the conditions. Conditions in your oesophagus, stomach and beginning of the small ...

Despite advances in our knowledge of celiac disease, the most current and authoritative recommendations conclude that diagnosis requires at least four biopsy specimens to be taken from the duodenal ...

Some endoscopy physicians may deliberately perform endoscopies on different days to avoid bundling and the associated reduction of payment, according to an Internal Medicine News report. Researchers ...

Upper endoscopy procedure commonly used to diagnose and manage gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD) is often overused by physicians, finds study published in Annals of Internal Medicine. Upper ...

The aim of the "How To..." section is to provide guidance on how to perform a range of procedures used for evaluation of patients with motility-related upper GI tract disorders. Each procedure is ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Younger age, tirzepatide and oral semaglutide were associated with a higher risk for retained gastric contents.

Here are the 2010 Medicare payment rates for six upper GI procedures in the ASC setting. 1. Upper GI endoscopy including esophagus, stomach and either duodenum and/or jejunum as appropriate; with ...