Medicare clinical laboratory fee schedule

MedPAC Meets

Members of the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission held their latest public meeting on Thursday, October 8 and Friday, October 9. The subjects on the meeting’s agenda were: Issues affecting the payment accuracy of the physician fee schedule and the clinical laboratory fee schedule Clinician quality initiatives in fee-for-service Medicare Medicare’s late-enrollment penalties Workplan: assessing the accuracy of the skilled nursing facility and home health prospective payment systems Go here for a summary of each of these issues, key points, future action items, and links to MedPAC staff presentations. MedPAC is an independent congressional agency that advises Congress on issues involving [...]

joe2026-10-13T15:02:45-04:00October 14, 2026|Medicare, MedPAC|

Federal Health Policy Update for May 21

The following is the latest health policy news from the federal government for May 15-21. Some of the language used below is taken directly from government documents. Congress The House Ways and Means Committee marked up several health care bills addressing issues such as durable medical equipment (DME) and home health fraud. A discussion draft that would have required non-profit hospitals and health systems to provide additional reporting on community benefit spending was removed from the list of measures considered. See all the marked-up bills and a recording of the meeting on the committee’s website here. Ways & Means expects [...]

joe2026-05-21T16:10:09-04:00May 21, 2026|Affordable Care Act, Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation, Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, CMMI, Medicaid, Medicaid managed care, Medicaid regulations, Medicare reimbursement policy|

Federal Health Policy Update for April 23

The following is the latest health policy news from the federal government for April 17-23. Some of the language used below is taken directly from government documents. The White House President Trump has issued an executive order calling for accelerated access to medical treatments for patients with serious mental illness, with an emphasis on greater access to psychedelic drugs. Learn more from this executive order and an accompanying White House fact sheet. Shortly after the White House issued this executive order, HHS’s Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health (ARPA-H) announced the first set of research teams for its Evidence-Based Validation [...]

joe2026-04-23T16:43:24-04:00April 23, 2026|Accountable Care Organization, ACO, Alternative payment models, Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation, Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, CMMI, Medicaid, Medicare, Medicare reimbursement policy|