>>Once GIVN’s colon capsule is FDA-approved, I would expect it to be a no-brainer for insurance companies to cover it insofar as it’s more convenient and less costly than the alternatives.<< (Dew)
But does it work as well? I remember looking into this a while ago (maybe the situation has changed since then), and claims were made that GIVN's capsule might miss a lot of polyps compared to a colonoscopy because - it might be pointing in the wrong direction as it passed by, or the camera might be obscured, etc. And whereas a doctor performing a conventional colonoscopy can spend more time looking at a suspicious area from every angle, the capsule just keeps on moving down, never to return ...
Have more recent studies put these concerns to rest?
A separate issue, that someone here already pointed out, is that if one has to perform a biopsy or remove a polyp - this can be incorporated into the colonoscopy - but the pill is just a voyeur ...
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