Medicare Clinical Lab Test Final Rule Has Few Changes After 20-Month Wait
This article was originally published in The Gray Sheet
Executive Summary
CMS opted to retain a 12-month delay period before implementing its final rule on clinical diagnostic laboratory tests, despite comments from several physicians requesting that the national coverage decision (NCD) policies be adopted earlier
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