CMS Changes to the Clinical Laboratory Fee ScheduleSong, Christine Park
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First, approximately 7,000 hospital laboratories obtain payment under the Clinical Laboratory Fee Schedule, receiving approximately 26 percent of all such Medicare payments. Nonetheless, only 21 hospital laboratories reported private payor data under the Secretary’s definition of “applicable laboratory” ...
Starting in 2015, the CMS will establish separate payment for managing patient care outside of face-to-face office visits. The 2014 payment rates also increase payment for several medical specialties, with large increases going to mental health service providers, including psychiatrists, clinical psych...
The final 2018 clinical laboratory fee schedule (CLFS) is out, and it is evident that the argument that the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) PAMA process was fundamentally flawed fell on deaf ears within CMS. Despite a groundswell urging delay, CMS issued a final clinical lab ...
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On November 2, 2018, CMS issued the 2018 Hospital Outpatient Prospective Payment System (“OPPS”) Final Rule (“Final Rule”) in which it finalized its proposal to pay the lower Physician Fee Schedule (“PFS”) rate rather than the current OPPS rate for evaluation and management services ...
The scope of changes to Stark and the mark-up prohibition in the calendar year 2008 proposed physician fee schedule rule is broader and more fundamental than CMS has proposed previously in an annual reimbursement regulation. Stark is a singularly technical and complex regulation, where a ...
The President's proposed budget for CMS would be $1.0 trillion in net mandatory and discretionary outlays for FY2017, which would be an increase of $25.3 billion, or 2.5%, over the estimated net outlays for FY2016. This estimate includes the net cost of legislative proposals ($5.6 billion)...
CMS Announces Plans to Modernize and Update the Clinical Laboratory Fee ScheduleWarren, John