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
