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Compulsory Lab and Pathology 'Packaging' Part of OPPS

Published on Mon Feb 08, 2016

Molecular pathology exempt, in most cases. You’ll find more and more lab and pathology services bundled into broader Ambulatory Payment Classifications (APCs) for hospital outpatients in 2016. That’s because CMS continues to step up efforts to package “integral, ancillary, supportive, dependent, or adjunctive services into primary services,” rather than having APCs function as a fee schedule that pays each service [...]
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