New Healthcare Law Cuts Clinical Laboratory Test Fee Schedule by 1.75% Through 2015

Apr 19, 2010 | Laboratory News, Laboratory Pathology

But ACLA’s Alan Mertz says clinical pathology test volume may increase because of other elements of this comprehensive makeover of the nation’s health system Two provisions in the new healthcare legislation signed into law on March 23 by President Obama will have a direct effect on clinical laboratories, said Alan Mertz, President of the American Clinical Laboratory Association (ACLA). One provision is an across-the-board 1.75% cut to the clinical lab fee schedule in each of the next five...
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