Tuesday, September 13, 2016

CMS Posts Video of ADLT Workgroup, Other PAMA Issues (September 12, 2016)

On September 12, 2016, CMS held a full day public meeting of the PAMA Clinical Diagnostic Laboratory Test advisory panel.

The CMS webpage for the event is here.

The morning session focused on some complexities caused by AMA CPT and CMS panel-test coding pricing policies, here. [*]

The afternoon session focused on some twists and turns of ADLT definitions and implementation, here.

Update.  An informal/unofficial morning transcript is here.   An informal/unofficial afternoon transcript is here.


Note that the transcript refers to working positions under discussion; see those PDF documents here and here.

[*]  For some numbing triva on unusual CMS panel test pricing rules, see here, here, here.