MolDx Labs Question Missing Medicare Payment Amounts For Some Test Codes
This article was originally published in The Gray Sheet
Executive Summary
Clinical laboratories plan to talk to CMS about its decision to list only 65 out of 114 new molecular pathology codes when it released revised gap-fill pricing Sept. 30, as well as concerns about perceived changes to the gap-fill regulation.
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