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OIG Publishes Annual Medicare Laboratory Test Spending Report: COVID Tests, Chemistry Tests Drive Largest Annual Increase in...

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On December 19, 2022, OIG released its annual report analyzing Medicare Part B spending on laboratory tests over the past year. According to OIG, Medicare Part B spending on laboratory tests increased 17% from $8.0 billion in...more

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CY 2023 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule: Clinical Laboratory Update

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On November 2, 2022, Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) filed its final rule implementing changes to the Medicare Physician Fee Schedule for CY 2023 (Final Rule). Embedded within this Final Rule are important...more

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PAMA Laboratory Reporting In Flux: ACLA Wins HHS Lawsuit and Congress Introduces PAMA Amendment Legislation

Important developments related to required price reporting to Medicare for clinical laboratories under the Protecting Access to Medicare Act of 2014 (PAMA) have recently occurred. As a result, the clinical laboratory...more

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CMS Releases Final Rule Implementing Reforms to Medicare CLFS Payment Rates Under PAMA

On June 23, 2016, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (“CMS”) released a final rule implementing Section 216 of the Protecting Access to Medicare Act of 2014 (“PAMA”), which established a new payment methodology for...more

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Summary: PAMA Final Rule

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Market Based Payment for Clinical Diagnostic Laboratory Tests - Summary - On June 17, 2016 the Centers of Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) issued the long awaited Medicare Clinical Diagnostic Laboratory Tests...more

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CMS Overhauls Clinical Laboratory Fee Schedule with Long-anticipated Final Rule

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On June 17, 2016, CMS released a long-anticipated final rule revising the Medicare payment system for clinical diagnostic laboratory tests paid under the Clinical Laboratory Fee Schedule (CLFS) (the Final Rule). In 2018,...more

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Also In The News - Health Headlines - November 2015

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CMS Publishes Medicaid Access Final Rule – CMS published a Final Rule in the Federal Register today, November 2, 2015, that implements a process for states to determine whether Medicaid payments satisfy what is known as the...more

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CMS Proposes Sweeping Changes to Medicare Reimbursement for Clinical Diagnostic Laboratory Tests

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First Data Collection Period for Clinical Laboratories Is July 1, 2015 to December 31, 2015 - In the October 1, 2015 Federal Register, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) published a proposed rule...more

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Clinical Laboratories: Proposed Rule Implements Requirements for Reporting and Payment Based on Private Payer Rates

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As required by a 2014 statute, CMS has issued proposed regulations (Proposed Rule) implementing new requirements for laboratory reporting of, and eventually basing Medicare payment on, rates for clinical laboratory services...more

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CMS Proposes Lab Data Collection Requirements to Update Fee Schedule

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On September 25, 2015, CMS released proposed rulemaking that would extensively revise payment and reporting requirements for clinical diagnostic laboratory tests (CDLTs), as paid on the Clinical Laboratory Fee Schedule...more

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A&B Healthcare Week In Review, September 2015

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On September 25, 2015, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) released a proposed rule entitled “Medicare Program: Medicare Clinical Diagnostic Laboratory Tests Payment System”. This proposed rule would...more

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