CEO SUMMARY: It is ironic that, after the federal Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) enacted the deepest price cuts to the Part B Clinical Laboratory Fee Schedule in more than 50 years, a U.S. Senator now asks CMS why it will pay billions more for lab testing. The question from Iowa Senator Chuck […]
Senator Asks: Are Lab Test Payments Too High?
GAO report on PAMA implementation shows confusion among federal agencies about fee cuts
- By Joseph Burns
- > From the Volume XXVI No. 2 - February 4, 2019 Issue
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