Dec 24, 2008 | Laboratory News, Laboratory Pathology
Hospitals, physicians, laboratories and others have until January 1, 2009, to provide comments on the proposal by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid (CMS) on three National Coverage Determinations about preventable surgical errors, or “never events.” Dark Daily readers know that, beginning October 1, CMS stopped paying hospitals for care or services associated with a list of eight “never events.” Other insurers, including Blue Cross and Blue Shield Association,...
