Thirty-Nine New Lab Codes, and Not One Has a Price
Seven days on the wire: CMS quietly folded three recurring lab change requests into one, added 39 new laboratory codes effective October 1 with no national payment amount on any of them, deleted three others, and flipped a point-of-care respiratory assay to CLIA-waived retroactive to March. Plus a third state parity audit in eleven days, and an LCD feed that has not refreshed since August 17.
Thirty-nine new laboratory codes take effect on October 1.
Medicare has published a payment amount for exactly none of them.
That is the shape of the quarterly clinical lab update CMS issued on Monday, and it is the heaviest of six items on the wire since Sunday.
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