Becker's Healthcare April 18, 2024
Here are three challenges gastroenterology is presented with today:
Declining reimbursements
From 2007 to 2022, the adjusted average reimbursement for GI procedures declined 33%, according to a study published in the American Journal of Gastroenterology.
“There is the well-known issue of decreasing reimbursement over time for procedures that already have existing CPT codes, and that too in the face of the post-pandemic increased demand, higher costs of doing business and staffing issues,” Vivek Kaul, MD, Segal-Watson professor of medicine in the gastroenterology and hepatology division at the University of Rochester (N.Y.) Medical Center, told Becker’s. “In addition, a real challenge we are facing is the inability to get reimbursed for a host of relatively newer (but well established) endoscopic...
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