CPT Knowledgebase - Feb 3, 2016

When a patient presents with poor bowel preparation for a screening or diagnostic colonoscopy, one of our gastroenterologists always utilizes the scope to do a sneak peek to make sure there is no obstruction that could be causing the poor bowel preparation. We have not reported this procedure in the past, but the provider is now questioning this and wants us to use modifier 53 to report an incomplete screening colonoscopy or modifier 52 to report an incomplete diagnostic colonoscopy. The reporting physician did not reach the splenic flexure. What is the correct CPT code to report this procedure?

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