
Medicare to Pay for 22 Additional PLA Codes, Starting April 1
To ensure proper Medicare Part B billing and coding, your billing staff must be aware of all 22 of the newly recognized PLA codes.

To ensure proper Medicare Part B billing and coding, your billing staff must be aware of all 22 of the newly recognized PLA codes.

Here’s a quick briefing of the new codes that come into effect on April 1 that your billing staff should know about.
An overview of PAMA and key aspects lab compliance officers should be aware of to help ensure compliance.
Legislation offering permanent relief from both PAMA price cuts and reporting didn’t make it into the federal spending bill passed Dec. 23.

Though the federal spending bill passed at the end of December offers another year’s reprieve from PAMA price cuts, SALSA was not included.