CMS has posted dates for its regular summer meetings for new lab code pricing. In addition, CMS has planned a September two-day meeting for pricing those codes with missing or anomalous results in the current PAMA pricing survey.
Public Comment June 10
CMS will hold its public comment meeting for pricing new lab tests for 2027, on June 10, 2026. That's quicker than the normal late-June date. Submit your comments by May 29.
Normally, the summer pricing cycle has about 100 new codes (mostly PLA codes.) This year, the number may be closer to 200 new codes, becaues of a bumper crop of PLA code applications being handled by AMA CPT right now (April-May 2026).
https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-2026-05-01/pdf/2026-08511.pdf
CMS Experts July 14-15
CMS convenes its expert panel to discuss each new code and recommend a price (or gapfil) for each new code. You can watch by livestream.
https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-2026-05-01/pdf/2026-08512.pdf
No Meeting: CMS Releases Proposed Prices
During 1H September, CMS will release its proposed prices, having taken account of the public meeting and the expert meeting.
Third Meeting: PAMA Pricing Problems
CMS will hold a meeting to discuss how it should price tests that were part of the PAMA data collection process (codes activated by second quarter 2025), but for which no data was submitted in the May-June-July current PAMA data survey. This is September 15-16, with a registration date of "August 3 to August 31." CMS will not know what tests had no PAMA data until after the close of the PAMA submisison process, May 1 - July 31. (Read more about the data collection process itself here.)
https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-2026-05-01/pdf/2026-08513.pdf
