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Article: No increase for CY05 clinical laboratory update.(Brief Article)
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- Healthcare Financial Management
- Article date:
- January 1, 2005
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The annual Medicare update to the 2005 local clinical laboratory fees is 0 percent, according to CMS instructions to fiscal intermediaries and carriers published November 5. In the transmittal conveying the instructions, CMS also updates laboratory costs subject to reasonable charge payments.
The 2005 laboratory fee schedule keeps the national minimum payment amount at $14.76. Tests for which national limitation amounts were established before January 1, 2001, will have NLAs that are 74 percent ...