2023年11月15日 · During a legislative markup Nov. 15, the House Energy and Commerce Health Subcommittee advanced to the full committee AHA-supported legislation (H.R. 6366) that would extend for one year the Geographic Practice Cost Index floor for physician work under the Medicare Physician Fee Schedule and delay…

2021年11月30日 · CMS sets CLFS payment rates based on the weighted median of private payer rates and volumes for covered clinical laboratory tests reported by each “applicable laboratory” during a designated “data reporting period.” For the calendar year (CY) 2018 CLFS rates, CMS defined an applicable laboratory as a laboratory that billed Medicare

2021年11月30日 · At A Glance Please note, on Dec. 11, President Biden signed legislation that delays by one year (until Jan. 1, 2023) the clinical laboratory reporting requirements discussed in this advisory. It also delays for one year payment cuts under the CLFS that would have otherwise been imposed starting Jan. 1, 2022.

2022年9月8日 · In 2014, Congress passed The Protecting Access to Medicare Act (PAMA/P.L. 113-93) to reform the Medicare Clinical Laboratory Fee Schedule (CLFS) to a single national fee schedule based on private market data from all types of laboratories that service Medicare beneficiaries, including independent labs, hospital outreach labs, and physician ...

2021年11月30日 · We urge you to include a one-year delay to the 2022 Medicare CLFS cuts and private payer data reporting period in the continuing resolution that is currently being negotiated. If you have questions, please contact Erin Morton with the National Independent Laboratory Association ([email protected]) and Tom Sparkman with the American Clinical ...

2021年11月30日 · “While we are grateful that Congress delayed the implementation of CLFS cuts in 2021 as part of the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act, we urge you to extend this delay — for both the 2022 cuts and the next private payer data reporting period — as the Public Health Emergency has not ended, and laboratories must continue to ...

2021年11月30日 · We urge you to include a one-year delay to the 2022 Medicare CLFS cuts and private payer data reporting period in the continuing resolution that is currently being negotiated. If you have questions, please contact Erin Morton with …

2023年5月22日 · Dear Leader Schumer, Speaker McCarthy, Minority Leaders Jeffries and McConnell: As organizations representing clinical and pathology laboratories, health care providers, laboratory professionals, and diagnostic manufacturers, we urge Congress to take immediate action to pass S. 1000 / H.R. 2377, the Saving Access to Laboratory Services Act …

2021年11月3日 · Specifically, hospitals that received at least $12,500 in Medicare revenues from CLFS services billed on the CMS 1450 14X bill type from Jan. 1 through June 30, 2019, will be required to report on these data between January and March 2022. Register here in advance to attend the webinar.

2021年12月9日 · The bill would delay for one year (until Jan. 1, 2023) payment cuts under the Clinical Laboratory Fee Schedule (CLFS). Congress last year delayed the implementation of CLFS cuts as part of the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act, but without additional action laboratories are scheduled to see cuts as large as 15% to some of the ...