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PAMA Cuts Might Be Reduced to Zero for 2023
By Scott Wallask | From the Volume XXIX, No. 11 – August 8, 2022 Issue
CEO SUMMARY: Congress may soon vote on a new bill that permanently reduces the amount of price cuts to Medicare Part B lab test prices, as specified under the Protecting Access to Medicare Act of 2014 (PAMA). The Saving Access to Laboratory Services Act (SALSA) eliminates a 15% paym…
MedPAC Reports to Congress on Issues in Lab Test Price Survey
By Robert Michel | From the Volume XXVIII, No. 13 – September 27, 2021 Issue
IN THE HALLS OF CONGRESS, A GOOD NEWS/BAD NEWS STORY is unfolding around the multi-year cuts to the prices Medicare pays for clinical laboratory tests. First the good news. In its latest semi-annual report to Congress, the Medicare Payment …
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