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...
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...
CMS Accepting 2022 MIPS Exception Applications
CMS has announced it is now accepting Merit-based Incentive Payment System (MIPS) Exception applications for clinicians and groups who have been impacted by extreme or uncontrollable circumstances in 2022 and would like to opt-out of the current reporting year....
2022 Final Medicare Fee Schedule: See impact to pathology
One year after Congress delayed planned fee schedule cuts due to the Covid-19 pandemic, it appears pathologists and other specialists are now going to experience payment reductions designed to offset boosts for evaluation and management (E/M) services in 2022,...