A bipartisan bill introduced in Congress aims to more accurately determine Medicare reimbursement for laboratories by tying payment rates for diagnostic tests to a not-for-profit commercial claims database. The legislation would reform the 2014 Protecting Access to Medicare Act, also known as PAMA, which the lab industry for years has argued created a process that sets reimbursement rates artificially low. Called the Reforming and Enhancing Sustainable Updates to Laboratory Testing Services (RESULTS) Act, the new bill would “dramatically improve” the data used to set rates for lab tests, the American Clinical Laboratory Association said.
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