Becker's Healthcare January 3, 2025
Here are 10 recent changes to colonoscopy laws, reimbursements and recommendations from 2024 that physicians should watch going into 2025:
States expanding care
Beginning Jan. 1, Nebraska, Illinois, Kentucky and Vermont expanded access to colonoscopies that are fully covered by insurance.
Average cost
Here is a breakdown of the average cost of patient coloscopies headed into 2025. On average, a colonoscopy in the U.S. will cost patients an average of $1,608.
Leaders step up for reform
In January, 45 members of Congress, led by Rep. Debbie Dingell, D-Mich., authored a letter to the Department of Health and Human Services urging federal agencies to expand access to colorectal cancer screenings by ensuring surveillance colonoscopies are covered as preventive services. Thus...
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