In the Protecting Access to Medicare Act of 2014 (PAMA), the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMA) is directed to collect market price data and use the data to establish prices for the Part B Clinical Laboratory Fee Schedule, starting on January 1, 2017.
Protecting Access to Medicare Act of 2014 Could Harm Independent Community Labs
Many factors involved in Medicare protection act’s lab market data reporting
- By Mary Van Doren
- | From the Volume XXII No. 3 - February 17, 2015 Issue
- Tags: Bundled payment, cap, clinical lab, clinical lab fee schedule, Clinical Laboratory, Clinical Laboratory Fee Schedule, DarkDaily, lab test, lab tests, laboratories, laboratory association, laboratory fee schedule, laboratory service, laboratory services, Medicare, Medicare Part B, medicare physician fee schedule, national independent laboratory association, outpatient laboratory services, outreach lab
