Citing Private Payor Data, CMS Cuts Reimbursement for 75% of Lab Tests in 2018

Late Friday evening, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) released their long-awaited preliminary private rate-based clinical laboratory fee schedule rates. These rates begin to implement section 216(a) of the Protecting Access to Medicare Act of 2014 (PAMA) by establishing new clinical laboratory fee schedule (CLFS) payment rates for diagnostic tests paid by Medicare […]