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Institute of Medicine Calls For 12 Medicare Lab Reforms

By Robert Michel, from the Volume VIII No. 6 - April 30, 2001 issue

CEO SUMMARY: Since 1987, the clinical lab industry has endured almost non-stop cuts in the absolute level of Medicare reimbursement for lab testing. But the time may be ripe for laboratories to work together to effect far-reaching reforms to Medicare laboratory payment policies. Just as the Institute of Medicine issued its 12 recommendations for reforming

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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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