The following article is written by Jen Cohrs CPC, CPMA, CGIC, member of AAPC. Colonoscopy coding is an art. There are many intricacies involved with the correct way to code a screening colonoscopy.

First, it is important to understand what a screening colonoscopy is. It is a procedure on a patient who has no symptoms. It involves looking but not touching, because nothing has been found in the ...