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OIG Announces 2025 Work Plan Review: What Clinical Laboratories Need to Know About Medicare Payments for Diagnostic Lab Tests

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In June 2025, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office of Inspector General (OIG) announced a new item in its Work Plan: “Medicare Payments for Clinical Diagnostic Laboratory Tests in 2024.” This annual review,...more

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CY 2023 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule: Clinical Laboratory Update

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On November 2, 2022, Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) filed its final rule implementing changes to the Medicare Physician Fee Schedule for CY 2023 (Final Rule). Embedded within this Final Rule are important...more

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D.C. Circuit Issues Favorable Decision in Medicare Clinical Laboratory Case

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On July 15, 2022, the D.C. Circuit issued a decision in favor of the American Clinical Laboratory Association (ACLA) in American Clinical Laboratory Association v. Becerra. The decision is the latest chapter in long-pending...more

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PAMA Laboratory Reporting In Flux: ACLA Wins HHS Lawsuit and Congress Introduces PAMA Amendment Legislation

Important developments related to required price reporting to Medicare for clinical laboratories under the Protecting Access to Medicare Act of 2014 (PAMA) have recently occurred. As a result, the clinical laboratory...more

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Potential Changes to PAMA Reporting in Medicare Physician Fee Schedule Rule

Clinical laboratories and hospitals should note the potential changes to the Protecting Access to Medicare Act of 2014 (“PAMA”) reporting requirements tucked into the 1,400 page Physician Fee Schedule Proposed Rule (the...more

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Laboratory Group Challenges CMS’s Implementation of Clinical Laboratory Commercial Data Reporting Requirements

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On December 11, 2017, the American Clinical Laboratory Association (ACLA) filed suit on behalf of its membership against the Secretary of HHS, challenging the Secretary’s implementation of the Protecting Access to Medicare...more

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OIG Raises Concerns Regarding Accuracy of New Clinical Laboratory Payment System

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On October 3, 2016, OIG released a report monitoring CMS’s progress on preparing for the implementation of the new payment system for clinical laboratory tests. The new payment system was mandated by the Protecting Access to...more

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Summary: PAMA Final Rule

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Market Based Payment for Clinical Diagnostic Laboratory Tests - Summary - On June 17, 2016 the Centers of Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) issued the long awaited Medicare Clinical Diagnostic Laboratory Tests...more

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At Long Last, CMS Issues Final Rule for Lab Fee Schedule Changes

Last Friday afternoon CMS released its eagerly anticipated final rule (the Final Rule) implementing the Protecting Access to Medicare Act of 2014 (PAMA), which, together with the Final Rule, will make sweeping changes to the...more

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Changing Time for Clinical Laboratories

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As Bob Dylan wrote, ‘‘The times, they are a-changin’ ’’ While Dylan certainly had larger issues in mind than the state of the clinical laboratory industry, it still is a fair description of what is happening for laboratories...more

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CMS Proposes Sweeping Changes to Medicare Reimbursement for Clinical Diagnostic Laboratory Tests

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First Data Collection Period for Clinical Laboratories Is July 1, 2015 to December 31, 2015 - In the October 1, 2015 Federal Register, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) published a proposed rule...more

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CMS Takes First Step to Reduce Payments for Clinical Laboratory Tests

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CMS recently published a proposed rule that would substantially revise the methodology used to pay for clinical laboratory tests that continue to be compensated separately by Medicare. Medicare Program; Medicare Clinical...more

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Clinical Laboratories: Proposed Rule Implements Requirements for Reporting and Payment Based on Private Payer Rates

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As required by a 2014 statute, CMS has issued proposed regulations (Proposed Rule) implementing new requirements for laboratory reporting of, and eventually basing Medicare payment on, rates for clinical laboratory services...more

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New CMS Proposed Rule Provides Who/What/When for Clinical Laboratory Reporting Requirements Starting January 1, 2016

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Clinical laboratories will see significant changes to their Medicare payments for clinical diagnostic laboratory tests (CDLTs) starting January 1, 2017, but the basis for new payment rates will come from “applicable data”...more

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CMS Releases Proposed Rule Reforming Medicare CLFS Payment Rates

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The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (“CMS”) released a proposed rule [CMS-1621-P] in accordance with Section 216 of the Protecting Access to Medicare Act of 2014 (“PAMA”), which establishes a new payment methodology...more

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CMS Publishes Long-Awaited PAMA Proposed Rule

On September 25, 2015, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) announced publication of the proposed rule (the “Proposed Rule”) implementing substantial changes to the Medicare Clinical Laboratory Fee Schedule...more

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CMS Proposes Overhaul of Clinical Lab Payment Methodology: What You Need To Know

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On Friday, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (“CMS”) issued a long-awaited proposed rule that would drastically change the payment rates for clinical laboratory services beginning January 1, 2017 (the “Proposed...more

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