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This biweekly newsletter provides concise, independent coverage and analysis of fast-breaking lab, pathology, blood banking, imaging and diagnostic radiology news from the Nation's Capital.
You'll find out about:
- Medicare payment and policy directives Billing guidelines and coding changes for diagnostic facilities
- CLIA & MQSA regulatory mandates, changes and interpretations
- Congressional actions & legislative initiatives
- Federal compliance requirements
- OIG anti-fraud initiatives
- Stark self-referral prohibitions
Plus you will get other legal news regarding FDA oversight of in vitro diagnostics, blood banks, and radiological devices OSHA, NRC, and state safety standards.
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 | NIR August 2010 Full PDF Issue |
| Medicare pricing for new 2011 lab fee schedule codes: Table of recommendations of five leading organizations
CMS finalizes changes in ESRD lab test payments, coming in 2011
List of ESRD-related laboratory tests
AAB wins key decision in legal battle with New York State Health Department
Upcoming G-2 Events Webinars
Medicare changes on the horizon
Central role of the sample in reducing lab errors
Conferences
Oct. 13: Lab Leaders Summit
Oct. 13-15: 28th Annual Lab Institute
Dec. 8-10: Laboratory Sales and Marketing
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| CMS Proposes Requiring Physician Signature on Lab Test Requisitions |
| Clinical laboratories will face major operational problems if the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) reverses longstanding Medicare policy and goes ahead with its proposal to require the signature of a physician or a nonphysician practitioner (NPP) on all requisitions for tests paid via the Part B lab fee schedule.
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| Pricing Proposed for New 2011 Medicare Lab Codes |
| Leading scientific societies and national clinical laboratory and pathology groups are among those who responded to the call for comment on how to set payment rates for CPT and HCPCS codes to be added to the Part B lab fee schedule, as of Jan. 1, 2011.
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| Medicare Pricing for New 2011 Lab Fee Schedule Codes: Recommendations of Five Leading Organizations |
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| CMS Finalizes Changes in ESRD Lab Test Payments |
| For renal dialysis facilities and clinical laboratories that serve them, major changes are in store next year under a final rule implementing Medicare’s transition to a new prospective payment system for outpatient dialysis services to beneficiaries with end-stage renal disease (ESRD). The changeover is required by the Medicare Improvements for Patients and Providers Act of 2008 (MIPPA).
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| AAB Wins Key Court Ruling Against N.Y. State Health Department |
| For more than 11 years, the American Association of Bioanalysts (AAB) has fought a court battle against the New York State Department of Health, claiming that it was intentionally overcharging clinical laboratories so that it could subsidize its many other research programs that had no relation to covering the necessary costs of regulating clinical labs and blood banks.
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