Tag: health care law

Florida Law Better Defines Lab Marketing Violations

By Joseph Burns, from the Volume XIX No. 10 - July 16, 2012 issue

CEO SUMMARY: Despite clear language in Florida’s new state law that bans the placement of laboratory employees in a physicians’ office, some clinical lab companies want to continue the practice of placing specimen collectors in physicians’ offices. These opinions were voiced by lab executives during a meeting on June 28 in Tallahassee, Florida, at the

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Did CMS Err in Issuing New Anti-Markup Rules?

By Robert Michel, from the Volume XVI No. 2 - February 2, 2009 issue

CEO SUMMARY: In the latest anti-markup rules that took effect on January 1, CMS may have unintentionally stated that the anti-markup rule doesn’t apply when a pathologist is reviewing histology slides. While the rule itself is unclear, the commentary that accompanies the rule says that supervision is not required. This ambiguity has been noticed by

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Volume XXVI No. 2 – February 4, 2019

NOW THAT MOST HOSPITALS ARE INCLUDED as applicable laboratories that must report their PAMA private payer lab test price data to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, managers of those labs will benefit from the incisive analysis in this issue of the lessons learned during the 2017 PAMA reporting cycle. THE DARK REPORT further offers recommendations on how labs can do a better job of gathering and reporting their own data to CMS. Also, TDR delivers an exclusive analysis of why the Government Accounting Office's assertion that CMS will be paying billions more for Part B clinical lab tests is simply wrong.

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