Who will your provide your anesthesia is an important question to get answered by your GI and/or scope center.
If you want a genuine MD anesthesiologist (me me) make sure they are in your network. Their bill comes separately so may be a separate co-pay and is usually the biggest charge in a scope. You should be able to get an estimate of this cost in advance, but only if you ask.
Some GI's use a nurse-anesthetist who has credentials to do this under the oversight of the GI and some GI's do their own anesthesia along with the scope (yikes). I have always had the big $ separate MD anesthesiologist with propafol IV (love, wish my skin cancer removal would allow it ha).
I've never had a scope in a hospital, always in a scope walk-in center, usually owned by a group of GI's and usually my GI is one of the owners but not always.
Look up any new doctor in ratemds.com and see how many unhappy patients there are. That's how I find new doctors and only been done wrong once (bad primary doc). I knew someone who got peritonitis last year from her bad GI's scope and she had no GI issues, just a cancer screening once-in-her-life at age 70. Some GI's are worse than others so find the best one possible.
Note: my dermatologist insists on not getting anesthesia for his own medical procedures because of the risk of problems. It's true that anesthesiologists malpractice insurance is higher than almost any other specialty. That said I have never had a problem and will continue getting it.
Post Edited (imagardener2) : 3/24/2016 7:51:49 PM (GMT-6)