CodeMap® Compliance Briefing: January 8, 2020

Editor's Welcome

Since November 2018, we have been informing our subscribers of important changes to the PAMA rules that expanded the law's reach to include hospital outreach laboratories. Those changes would have required hospital outreach laboratories to report private payer data to CMS by March 31, 2020. This CodeMap® Compliance Briefing announces that the latest reporting period has been delayed by 1 year due to Congress passing the Laboratory Access for Beneficiaries (LAB) Act as part of an end-of-year spending package.

Important details about the LAB Act and its implications follow. As always, ple....

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