Further Details to Note about Updated Clinical Lab Director Qualifications
Put into place late last year, the new rules place more emphasis on formal and continuing education requirements
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Change and Constancy: The 2025 CLFS Update
The 2025 CLFS update—what has changed, what has stayed the same, and what that means for diagnostic test reimbursement in 2025
Compliance Concerns: Laboratory Regulations in 2024 and Beyond
Earle S. Collum, chair of the CAP Council on Accreditation, talks through regulatory changes in 2024 and what to expect from 2025
Government Shutdown: The Impact on the Agencies that Regulate Labs
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Medicare Reimbursement: CMS Provides Needed PAMA Relief—But Newly Covered Hospital Labs Must Report in 2019
From - Lab Compliance Advisor
The battle between CMS and the lab industry over Medicare Part B pricing for lab tests could be on the road to…
Provider Fined for Not Taking Compliance Measures Required by Its CIA
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Correction: PAMA Relief—CMS 1450 14x TOB Labs DO Count!
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How to Adjust to the April 2018 Medicare Beneficiary Cards
By Sean McSweeney bio
In a press release on May 30, 2017, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) commented regarding their fraud prevention initiative program and their planned changes regarding…
CMS to OIG: Get Back the $66.3 Million You Improperly Paid to Labs for Urine Validity Tests
From - G2 Compliance Advisor
As if times were not already tense enough for labs that bill Medicare for urine drug tests, the OIG ratcheted up the pressure another notch on…
Enforcement Trends: Opioid Crackdown Zeroes in on Urine Drug Testing-Today the Doctors, Tomorrow the Labs
From - G2 Compliance Advisor
A 67-year-old Michigan M.D. is the most recent doctor taken down in what has become a crucial part of the federal government's opioid drug crusade…
You Make the Call: Self-Disclosing Non-Compliant Arrangements with Large Physician Groups
From - G2 Compliance Advisor
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Fictional Med (FM), a large physician-owned clinic, is one of your lab's biggest customers. So your heart sinks when…
CMS Ignored Congressional Intent in Implementing New Clinical Lab Payment System Under PAMA, ACLA Charges in Suit
From - G2 Compliance Advisor
The government agency that runs the Medicare program failed to follow a congressional directive to implement a market-based laboratory payment system…
OIG Calls on CMS to Do Better at Medicare Collecting Overpayments
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