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Article: Action encourages early detection of colon cancer to save lives: America's Nurse anesthetists commend Aetna for restoring coverage of anesthesia that assures most effective, comfortable GI endoscopies.(Gastrointestinal Endoscopy)
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- Missouri Nurse
- Article date:
- January 1, 2008
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WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today's announcement by Aetna that it will restore coverage for anesthesia services that assure patients the most effective,comfortable and efficient delivery of life-saving-colonoscopies was lauded by the 37,000-member American Association of Nurse Anesthetists (AANA), which had requested the health insurance giant to reverse its recent policy change denying such coverage.
"Colon cancer kills, early detection saves lives, and the most reliable method for early detection is colonoscopy," said AANA President Wanda O. Wilson, CRNA, PhD. "Patients and physicians agree that the safest and most comfortable colonoscopy is delivered with monitored ...