Expert Q&A: Labs Must Take a Greater Role in Guiding Clinicians About Abnormal Data
Lee Fleisher, MD, advocates for clearer interpretation of test results by medical laboratory scientists
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Lee Fleisher, MD, advocates for clearer interpretation of test results by medical laboratory scientists
Here’s the Advance Beneficiary Notice of Non-Coverage that you should present to patients who speak Spanish, starting August 31, 2022.
Here’s the Advance Beneficiary Notice of Non-Coverage that you should present to patients, starting August 31, 2022.
After the DOJ announced a massive National Health Care Fraud Enforcement Action on July 20 targeting telehealth and telemarketing scams, labs need to be extremely wary, especially if they provide genetic testing.
On July 15, the Department of Health & Human Services Office for Civil Rights announced 11 new enforcement actions, including the biggest penalty doled out since the agency began the right of access program back in April 2019—$240,000 against Texas nonprofit Memorial Hermann Health System.
As of August 31, 2022, labs and other providers must use the new ABN labeled with the appropriate federal OMB Number (0938-0566) and CMS-R-131 to ensure they can bill Medicare beneficiaries for any lab tests or other services that Medicare doesn’t cover.
According to a recent OIG report, CMS is not doing a good job collecting the Medicare overpayments OIG auditors are uncovering. However, CMS recently rejected almost all of the recommendations in that report, suggesting all is not well between the two federal agencies.
The VALID Act for FDA regulation of laboratory developed tests is working its way through the final stages of the legislative process, but not everyone is loving it.
In addition to increasing and imposing new user fees, the proposed rule would allow nurses to perform high and moderate complexity testing, essentially placing nursing degrees on the same level as degrees in clinical laboratory science, biology, and chemistry. Here's what lab managers need to know about the proposed rule.
The agency is once more accepting pre-submissions for all in vitro diagnostic tests, not just those for COVID-19.
In July, ICATT took a major step toward equitable access to testing by enlisting two of the country’s leading COVID-19 PCR test providers.