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PAMA Action:

Meet the Proposed CLFS Pricing Rule

Published on Tue Dec 08, 2015

Lab reporting starts January 1. Finally — the rule for re-valuing the Clinical Laboratory Fee Schedule (CLFS) that was due by June 30 arrived Oct. 1, 2015. The rule implements section 216 of the Protecting Access to Medicare Act of 2014 (PAMA). It requires “applicable” labs to tell CMS how much private payers reimburse them for specific lab tests, so [...]
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