Medical Laboratory Personnel Shortage Relief Act Aims to Dent the Staffing Crisis
How the 2024 proposal will fare on Capitol Hill in 2025 remains to be seen, though
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Congress Moves to Require Medicare Coverage of Multi-Cancer Early Detection Tests
Federal lawmakers have renewed efforts to pass legislation ensuring Medicare coverage of multi-cancer early detection (MCED) tests.
Whistleblowers: SCOTUS Gives DOJ Wider Authority to Dismiss Meritless Qui Tam Cases
Ruling could spell good news for labs and other healthcare providers targeted by whistleblowers in False Claims Act qui tam lawsuits.
Senate Hearing Addresses Potential Stark Law Change
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FDA Holds Exploratory Meeting on Liquid Biopsies
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Report Challenges Proposed Consent Requirements for Research Using Biospecimens
From - National Intelligence Report
The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine recently released a report critical of a controversial proposal to…
Final PAMA Rule Released, Implementation Delayed to 2018
From - National Intelligence Report
After much lobbying, debate and delay, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) final rule implementing the Protecting Access to Medicare Act (PAMA) changes to the Clinical Laboratory Fee Schedule (CLFS) was released…
House Appropriations Bill Seeks to Halt FDA Regulation of LDTs
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CMS Unveils Proposed Rule Implementing MACRA and Replacing Meaningful Use
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CMS Submits PAMA Implementation Rule for OMB Review
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CMS Issues Proposed Rule Implementing MACRA
From - National Intelligence Report
In January, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Acting Administrator Andy Slavitt indicated the "Meaningful Use program as it has existed, will now…
OMB Reviewing Final Rule on Medicare Lab Test Payment System
From - National Intelligence Report
Despite ongoing efforts to delay the changes to the Clinical Laboratory Fee Schedule (CLFS) directed by the Protecting Access to Medicare Act of 2014 (PAMA), the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services's final rule implementing the…