ePolicy News January 2020

Find a list of the stories in the January 2020 edition of ePolicy News below.

Congress Delivers Key Legislative Victory
Clinical laboratories have received a one-year reprieve from reporting payment rate data to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services under the newly enacted Laboratory Access for Beneficiaries Act. Read More

ASCP Calls for Elimination of Stark Pathology Exemption
The In-Office Ancillary Services exception—which allows referring physicians to bill for, and profit from, the anatomic pathology services they order on their patients—should be eliminated, according to ASCP. Read More

CMS Should Expand NGS Coverage, ASCP Urges
In a letter to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, ASCP recommended coverage policies for Next Generation Sequencing testing should be expanded for breast and ovarian cancers. Read More

ASCP Supports Opioid Workforce Act
ASCP joined with members of the Graduate Medical Education Coalition to provide support for the Opioid Workforce Act of 2019, which would provide Medicare support for an additional 1,000 graduate medical education positions over five years in hospitals that have, or are establishing, accredited residency programs in addiction medicine, addiction psychiatry, or pain medicine. Read More

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