As SCOTUS Nixes Biden Loan Forgiveness Plan, Biden Seeks Other Opportunities
The Supreme Court recently rejected President Joe Biden’s initiative to forgive up to $20,000 of student loan debt, which greatly affects pathologists, residents, and non-physician laboratory professionals. The Biden Administration is already crafting an alternative plan to provide broader loan forgiveness. ASCP supports the Administration’s efforts and is working to incentivize people to enter the laboratory profession. Read
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Tell Congress to Fix the Medicare Clinical Laboratory Fee Schedule
ASCP strongly encourages members to send a message to Congress to enact the Saving Access to Laboratory Services Act, which would reform the Medicare Clinical Laboratory Fee Schedule. The new legislation uses data sampling to improve data collection, which will reduce regulatory burden and provide more accurate payment rates. Read
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ASCP Urges Member Action to Support Medicare Physician Fee Schedule
Whether you are a physician or not, please use the American Medical Association’s eAdvocacy platform to contact your legislators and urge them to support the Strengthening Medicare for Patients and Providers Act, which will provide the Medicare physician fee schedule (PFS) with an annual inflationary update. This bipartisan measure would provide financial stability to the pathologists, laboratory personnel, and medical laboratories. Read
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FDA Solidifies Plans to Regulate LDTs
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is moving forward with plans to regulate laboratory developed tests, or LDTs. This follows an unsuccessful effort last year to enact legislation—the Verifying Accurate, Leading-Edge IVCT Development Act (VALID Act)—clarifying the Agency’s authority to regulate these tests. ASCP was critical to the effort to prevent the VALID Act from being enacted last year. Read
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Register for Webinar: Increasing National Access to mpox Testing by Leveraging Reference Lab Capacity
In the next session in the Building Bridges Across the Laboratory Community webinar series, presented by ASCP and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Dr. Suzanne Dale, PhD, D(ABMM), talking about how the Labcorp team worked closely with the CDC and the Food and Drug Administration to validate and scale high-throughput testing platforms to respond to the emergence of the mpox during the summer of 2022. Read
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