Reimbursement Trends: OIG Report Shows Slight Uptick in 2017 Medicare Part B Lab Payments
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Health Insurance Market: Two Recent Changes & Their Impact on Labs
From - National Intelligence Report
Amid all the talk of sweeping reform of the health insurance marketplace, the smaller, interim changes get overlooked despite their direct impact on…
Medicare Reimbursement: How CMS Price Transparency Proposal Could Hurt Labs & Patient Relations
From - National Intelligence Report
Last April, CMS issued a proposed rule to make Medicare rates more transparent. While designed to "empower patients and reduce administrative burden," the proposed changes would…
PAMA Unlocks Golden Age for Innovative Diagnostics
By Chance Scott bio
The publication of the 2018 Clinical Laboratory Fee Schedule (CLFS) in January saw a long and heated debate within the lab community come to fruition…
ACA: DOJ Won’t Defend Individual Mandate in Court—But 16+ States Will
From - National Intelligence Report
One of the DOJ's principal roles is to defend the federal laws in court cases challenging their constitutionality. But the agency has made it known that…