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Now Available: 2026 MIPS Payment Adjustment Information

October 16, 2025

The Centers for Medicare & Medicare Services (CMS) has released Merit-based Incentive Payment System (MIPS) payment adjustment information for the 2024 performance period/2026 MIPS payment year.

Education Corner October 2025

October 16, 2025

The Future of GI Fellowship Education is Here! GI Program Training Directors: Help your fellows thrive in the field of GI endoscopy with access to the latest GI content available through �������’s Gastrointestinal Endoscopy Self-Assessment Product (GESAP).

IBD: A Field of Discovery, Growth, and Deep Patient Connection

October 16, 2025

I chose to specialize in inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) because it is one of the most dynamic and rewarding areas in gastroenterology.

Inside Advanced Endoscopy with Dr. Mohammad Bilal

October 16, 2025

The ability to intervene in someone’s disease course with your hands (endoscope) really inspired me to pursue interventional endoscopy. While every specialty is equally important in medicine, this feeling is what made me choose interventional endoscopy.

������� Answers Your Coding Questions

October 8, 2025

A provider wants to do an office visit the same day as the patient’s infusion since the patient is coming back from college. If we do that, can we add a modifier to get paid for both?

Increasing Withdrawal Time

October 8, 2025

Successful applicants to the ������� Endoscopy Unit Recognition Program submit a summary of a recently conducted quality improvement (QI) project as part of the application process.

Case 31: Painful, Leaking PEG Tube

October 8, 2025

A 30 year-old male with a history of cystic fibrosis and PEG tube dependency presents to clinic with complaints of difficulty using PEG tube, leaking around tube and abdominal pain.

2025 EQuIP Prize Winners

October 8, 2025

The ������� Endoscopy Quality Improvement Project – EQuIP – Prizes Program promotes quality improvement projects that have the potential to transform quality care in endoscopy.

NIH Operations Disrupted by Federal Funding Lapse

October 2, 2025

On Oct. 1, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) issued a notice titled “Information for the NIH Extramural Community During the Lapse of Federal Government Funding.”

New CPT® Codes for GI Services Coming in 2026

October 2, 2025

Introducing New CY2026 CPT® Codes Relevant to GI: ESG and Anorectal Physiology Effective January 1, 2026, three new CPT®[1] codes take effect for common GI services.

Medical Groups Ask for Exception to New H-1B Order

October 2, 2025

������� joined national physician organizations on a letter to Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem urging that H-1B visa graduate medical education trainees be exempt from a new order issued.

Expiration of Telehealth Flexibilities Follow Government Shutdown

October 2, 2025

Current Medicare telehealth flexibilities that were extended by Congress through September 30, 2025, expired effective October 1 and will lapse unless there is action by Congress.

������� Opposes Cigna’s New E/M Downcoding Policy (Effective Oct. 1, 2025)

October 2, 2025

Cigna’s “E/M Coding and Accuracy” policy (R49 - link) would allow automatic one-level downcoding of 99204–99205, 99214–99215, and 99244–99245 when Cigna deems “encounter criteria” unmet.

The Advocate: Your Voice in GI Policy, Practice and Payment

October 2, 2025

Welcome to the inaugural issue of The Advocate, the new ������� publication focused on advocacy, policy and payment. This newsletter will be delivered to your inbox every other Saturday.

QI Spotlight: Improving patient post-procedure discharge instructions

September 17, 2025

The GI endoscopy service determined by using patient experience and complaint data that patients were frequently not receiving adequate discharge instructions.