House Energy and Commerce Committee Holds Hearing on RESULTS Act

• The House of Representatives recently held an important hearing on the RESULTS Act 

• Congressional action needed ASAP to prevent further cuts to laboratory reimbursement 

ASCP is calling on all its members to tell Congress to pass the Reforming and Enhancing Sustainable Updates to Laboratory Testing Services Act, or the RESULTS Act, which is critical to stabilizing reimbursement for laboratory services. 

The House Energy and Commerce Committee just held a hearing on a series of Medicare and healthcare-related bills, including the RESULTS Act. This legislation is critically important to the pathology and laboratory community as it aims to reform Medicare laboratory payment rates. When CMS last revamped the CLFS in 2016, it cut overall laboratory spending by billions of dollars, for more than originally expected by Congress and the Congressional Budget Office. 

As legislative provisions shielding the Medicare CLFS from even more cuts expires on January 30, 2026, ASCP is urging all pathologists, laboratory professionals and their colleagues to contact their federal legislators and urge them to enact this important legislation as soon as possible. You can contact your legislators via the following link for the Stop Lab Cuts grassroots advocacy site, here.