Transparency Apps are great, but...

If you are expecting your members to use an app to direct themselves to better cost and quality healthcare consider this example to understand why we do navigation telephonically. If a member is told they need a colonoscopy and uses a tool on their own. This is what may pop up for them, or even if colonoscopy is all that pops up as a choice, where are the costs being derived from when there is this range of codes? It's always better to know before you go.

Code

Description

44388

COLONOSCOPY THROUGH STOMA; DIAGNOSTIC, INCLUDING COLLECTION OF SPECIMEN(S) BY BRUSHING OR WASHING, WHEN PERFORMED (SEPARATE PROCEDURE)

44389

COLONOSCOPY THROUGH STOMA; WITH BIOPSY, SINGLE OR MULTIPLE

44390

COLONOSCOPY THROUGH STOMA; WITH REMOVAL OF FOREIGN BODY(S)

44391

COLONOSCOPY THROUGH STOMA; WITH CONTROL OF BLEEDING, ANY METHOD

44392

COLONOSCOPY THROUGH STOMA; WITH REMOVAL OF TUMOR(S), POLYP(S), OR OTHER LESION(S) BY HOT BIOPSY FORCEPS

44394

COLONOSCOPY THROUGH STOMA; WITH REMOVAL OF TUMOR(S), POLYP(S), OR OTHER LESION(S) BY SNARE TECHNIQUE

44401

COLONOSCOPY THROUGH STOMA; WITH ABLATION OF TUMOR(S), POLYP(S), OR OTHER LESION(S) (INCLUDES PRE-AND POST-DILATION AND GUIDE WIRE PASSAGE, WHEN PERFORMED)

44402

COLONOSCOPY THROUGH STOMA; WITH ENDOSCOPIC STENT PLACEMENT (INCLUDING PRE- AND POST-DILATION AND GUIDE WIRE PASSAGE, WHEN PERFORMED)

44404

COLONOSCOPY THROUGH STOMA; WITH DIRECTED SUBMUCOSAL INJECTION(S), ANY SUBSTANCE

44405

COLONOSCOPY THROUGH STOMA; WITH TRANSENDOSCOPIC BALLOON DILATION

44406

COLONOSCOPY THROUGH STOMA; WITH ENDOSCOPIC ULTRASOUND EXAMINATION, LIMITED TO THE SIGMOID, DESCENDING, TRANSVERSE, OR ASCENDING COLON AND CECUM AND ADJACENT STRUCTURES

44407

COLONOSCOPY THROUGH STOMA; WITH TRANSENDOSCOPIC ULTRASOUND GUIDED INTRAMURAL OR TRANSMURAL FINE NEEDLE ASPIRATION/BIOPSY(S), INCLUDES ENDOSCOPIC ULTRASOUND EXAMINATION LIMITED TO THE SIGMOID, DESCENDING, TRANSVERSE, OR ASCENDING COLON AND CECUM AND ADJACENT STRUCTURES

45378

COLONOSCOPY, FLEXIBLE; DIAGNOSTIC, INCLUDING COLLECTION OF SPECIMEN(S) BY BRUSHING OR WASHING, WHEN PERFORMED (SEPARATE PROCEDURE)

45379

COLONOSCOPY, FLEXIBLE; WITH REMOVAL OF FOREIGN BODY(S)

45380

COLONOSCOPY, FLEXIBLE; WITH BIOPSY, SINGLE OR MULTIPLE

45381

COLONOSCOPY, FLEXIBLE; WITH DIRECTED SUBMUCOSAL INJECTION(S), ANY SUBSTANCE

45382

COLONOSCOPY, FLEXIBLE; WITH CONTROL OF BLEEDING, ANY METHOD

45384

COLONOSCOPY, FLEXIBLE; WITH REMOVAL OF TUMOR(S), POLYP(S), OR OTHER LESION(S) BY HOT BIOPSY FORCEPS

45385

COLONOSCOPY, FLEXIBLE; WITH REMOVAL OF TUMOR(S), POLYP(S), OR OTHER LESION(S) BY SNARE TECHNIQUE

45386

COLONOSCOPY, FLEXIBLE; WITH TRANSENDOSCOPIC BALLOON DILATION

45388

COLONOSCOPY, FLEXIBLE; WITH ABLATION OF TUMOR(S), POLYP(S), OR OTHER LESION(S) (INCLUDES PRE- AND POST-DILATION AND GUIDE WIRE PASSAGE, WHEN PERFORMED)

45389

COLONOSCOPY, FLEXIBLE; WITH ENDOSCOPIC STENT PLACEMENT (INCLUDES PRE- AND POST-DILATION AND GUIDE WIRE PASSAGE, WHEN PERFORMED)

45391

COLONOSCOPY, FLEXIBLE; WITH ENDOSCOPIC ULTRASOUND EXAMINATION LIMITED TO THE RECTUM, SIGMOID, DESCENDING, TRANSVERSE, OR ASCENDING COLON AND CECUM, AND ADJACENT STRUCTURES

45392

COLONOSCOPY, FLEXIBLE; WITH TRANSENDOSCOPIC ULTRASOUND GUIDED INTRAMURAL OR TRANSMURAL FINE NEEDLE ASPIRATION/BIOPSY(S), INCLUDES ENDOSCOPIC ULTRASOUND EXAMINATION LIMITED TO THE RECTUM, SIGMOID, DESCENDING, TRANSVERSE, OR ASCENDING COLON AND CECUM, AND ADJACENT STRUCTURES

45393

COLONOSCOPY, FLEXIBLE; WITH DECOMPRESSION (FOR PATHOLOGIC DISTENTION) (EG, VOLVULUS, MEGACOLON), INCLUDING PLACEMENT OF DECOMPRESSION TUBE, WHEN PERFORMED