CEO SUMMARY: On Nov. 2, the federal Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services released its Physician Fee Schedule for 2019. It says it will expand the number of labs from which it collects data about the lab test prices paid by private health insurers. While some labs may welcome these changes, groups representing clinical laboratories […]
NILA, ACLA Respond to CMS 2019 Final Lab Rule
Adjustments in data collection processes won’t start for two years, thus deep cuts start on Jan. 1
- By Joseph Burns
- > From the Volume XXV No. 16 - November 13, 2018 Issue
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