CEO SUMMARY: Under the Protecting Access to Medicare Act, CMS must collect market price and volume data from certain labs beginning January 1, 2016. CMS will use this data to establish Part B clinical laboratory fees beginning in 2017. One lab association representing community and regional laboratories points out that CMS has complex issues that must be appropriately addressed if the resulting rules are to avoid favoring some types of labs over others, whether intentional or not.
Market Price Report Rules Must Address All Issues
Lab industry awaits release of rules by CMS and whether such rules will favor some types of labs
- By Joseph Burns
- > From the Volume XXII No. 3 - February 17, 2015 Issue
- Tags: Bundled payment, cap, clinical lab, clinical laboratories, Clinical Laboratory, Clinical Laboratory Fee Schedule, impac, lab administrator, lab test, lab testing, lab tests, laboratories, laboratory association, laboratory fee schedule, laboratory fees, laboratory industry, laboratory service, laboratory services, laboratory test, laboratory testing, Medicare, Medicare Part B, national independent laboratory association, outpatient laboratory services, outreach lab, pathologists, Protecting Access to Medicare Act (PAMA), the clinical laboratory, the laboratory
