CMS Pushes New Lab Pay Rates To 2018, Revamps Price Data Reporting

CMS pushed back the start of a new pay system for labs based on private-sector pay rates until 2018 in a final rule that overhauls the clinical laboratory fee schedule for the first time in 30 years. The American Hospital Association and the arm of the Advanced Medical Technology Association that represents diagnostic test makers, AdvaMedDx, say they are pleased data from hospital-based labs will be factored into pay rates under the new system, and the American Clinical Laboratory Association...