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Annual Update Triggers Cut of 1.9 Percent Jan. 1 Starting Jan. 1, lab fees are cut by 1.9 percent under the 2010 calendar year Medicare clinical laboratory fee schedule released by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS).

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