OMB Reviewing CMS Lab-Test Pay Rule, Which Is Expected This Month

The White House Office of Management and Budget is reviewing CMS' long-overdue plan for collecting data from laboratories to create a fee schedule that is based on private payer rates, and a CMS official last week told Medicare advisers that the proposed rule should be issued sometime this month. Industry is anxious to learn which facilities will have to report data, what they’ll have to report and how they’ll report it. Another big question on the minds of lobbyists is...