Makers of innovative medical devices makers will remain on pins and needles after CMS’s decision to once more delay a final rule that would automatically provide initial Medicare coverage for new … [Read more...]
Increasing Revenue
Manufacturers Wait Anxiously for CMS Decision on Automatic Medicare Coverage of MCIT Breakthrough Devices
July 1, 2021
PAMA
ACLA Keeps the Pressure on CMS by Appealing Dismissal of PAMA Lawsuit
June 28, 2021
The American Clinical Laboratory Association (ACLA) is not backing down. For more than three years, the association has waged litigation warfare challenging the legality of CMS’s methodology for … [Read more...]
Increasing Revenue
Manufacturers Wait Anxiously for CMS Decision on Automatic Medicare Coverage of MCIT Breakthrough Devices
June 8, 2021
Makers of innovative medical devices makers will remain on pins and needles after CMS’s decision to once more delay a final rule that would automatically provide initial Medicare coverage for new … [Read more...]
Increasing Revenue
Manufacturers Wait Anxiously for CMS Decision on Automatic Medicare Coverage of MCIT Breakthrough Devices
May 1, 2021
Manufacturers of innovative medical devices are on pins and needles right now that the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) has delayed implementation of a final rule that was supposed to … [Read more...]
CMS
Reimbursement of COVID-19 Testing: Private Payors
May 2, 2020
COVID-19 relief legislation, i.e., the Families First Coronavirus Response Act (FFCRA) and Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act (CARES) require payors to cover COVID-19 testing without … [Read more...]
CMS
Reimbursement of COVID-19 Testing: Medicare
May 2, 2020
How about some good news for a change? On April 15, CMS announced that it was increasing reimbursements for high-throughput SARS-CoV-2 lab tests. Here are the three key takeaways. Which Tests … [Read more...]
Reimbursement
CDC Issues ICD-10-CM Coding Guidance for Coronavirus Encounters
March 28, 2020
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) issued official guidance to labs and other health care providers on which ICD-10-CM diagnosis codes to use for 2019 novel coronavirus … [Read more...]
Coronavirus
Reimbursement: Congress Calls on Insurers to Cover Coronavirus Testing without Charging Patients
March 17, 2020
As labs scramble to come up with a coronavirus detection assay and CMS creates a billing and coding regimen, Congress is working to ensure that private payors provide coverage of SARS-CoV-2 testing. … [Read more...]
ACLA
Lab industry leaders meet with White House on COVID-19 testing
March 8, 2020
The American Clinical Laboratory Association (ACLA) has issued a statement following a meeting last week with the White House's Coronavirus Task Force. Here is a statement from ACLA President Julie … [Read more...]
Coronavirus
Two commercial labs testing now for COVID-19
March 8, 2020
Two commercial lab companies have announced they are moving into testing for COVID-19. LabCorp. said Thursday it was immediately offering testing for COVID-19 and Quest Diagnostics has announced it … [Read more...]
