6 Things Labs Need to Be Aware of in 2023
Clinical laboratories and healthcare providers as a whole received a number of welcome reprieves from potential payment cuts and burdensome regulation as 2022 drew to a close. But that doesn’t mean many of these issues couldn’t be resurrected in a different form in...
VALID Act Excluded from Omnibus Package, Payment Cuts Delayed
In a win for laboratory innovation, the VALID Act, which would have created a new risk-based framework for regulating lab developed tests (LDTs), was excluded from the year-end omnibus spending package recently finalized by Congress, meaning the legislation...
MIPS 2023: Reporting for Pathologists
By: Beth Madden, Client Administrator CMS has announced what lies ahead for the Merit-based Incentive Payment System (MIPS) program with proposed adjustments for the 2023 performance year, which impacts Medicare Part B payments in 2025. The agency said it is focusing...
2023 Proposed Medicare PFS: See Impact to Pathology
The 2023 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule Proposed Rule was released late Thursday, July 7. After two consecutive years of a Congress delaying a number of anticipated reimbursement cuts due to the impact of the COVID pandemic, it now appears some of these previously...