Congress Introduces Legislation to Update PAMA Lab Reporting Requirements

Congress on Wednesday introduced legislation to update the laboratory reimbursement reporting requirements under the Protecting Access to Medicare Act (PAMA).

Called the Saving Access to Laboratory Services Act (SALSA), the bill would require the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) to use a statistically representative sample of rates from the laboratory market to determine Medicare’s Clinical Laboratory Fee Schedule (CLFS) and would increase the time between reporting periods from three to four years.

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