Clinical Labs Urge CMS To Make Hospital Labs Report Commercial Rates

Clinical laboratories urge CMS to include hospitals labs in price reports it collects to determine pay rates under a new reimbursement system, and they want the agency to consider protein biomarkers as advanced diagnostic laboratory tests. The American Clinical Laboratory Association also suggests that CMS delay the new pay scheme, which is scheduled to take effect the beginning of 2017. The new pay system is driven by the Protecting Access to Medicare Act, which for the first time in 30...