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.
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.
OIG says the agency is leaving millions of dollars on the table, but CMS doesn’t want to hear it.
With the final rule on PT published July 11, here are the five things lab managers need to know to keep their labs compliant.
D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals agrees with lab industry that CMS got Medicare lab pricing all wrong, but says it’s unable to intervene.