CMS Should Revise Lab Test Rate-Setting Method - HHS Inspector General
This article was originally published in The Gray Sheet
Executive Summary
HHS' Office of Inspector General is asking CMS to seek congressional authority to craft new ways to set Medicare payment rates for clinical laboratory services, according to a July 1report
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