Labs File Suit Against US Government In Dx Pay-Rule Case
Executive Summary
The American Clinical Laboratory Association last week requested summary judgment in federal court against the US Department of Health and Human Services over a Medicare final rule setting clinical diagnostic laboratory test reimbursement rates.
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