Reimbursement Position Statements

Letter to CMS on the New Clinical Diagnostic Laboratory Test Codes for the Clinical Laboratory Fee Schedule for Calendar Year 2015

On behalf of the Coalition for 21st Century Medicine, I am writing to thank you for the recently released CY2015 Clinical Laboratory Fee Schedule (CLFS) Preliminary Payment Determinations. We agree with CMS’ decision to gapfill the payment rates for the new Multianalyte Assays with Algorithmic Analyses (MAAAs), Genomic Sequencing Procedures (GSPs) and other Molecular Multianalyte Assays codes.

2015 Physician Fee Schedule and Clinical Laboratory Fee Schedule Comment Letter

The Coalition for 21st Century Medicine (C21) submits these comments to the 2015 Physician Fee Schedule proposed rulemaking to provide information helpful to the Agency’s implementation of the clinical diagnostic laboratory test coverage provisions contained in the recently enacted Protecting Access to Medicare Act of 2014 (PAMA).

Clinical Laboratory Fee Schedule (CLFS) 2015 Public Meeting Comments

On behalf of the Coalition for 21st Century Medicine, and in follow-up to the comments we presented during the public meeting held on July 14, 2014, we are pleased to submit these additional comments for your consideration as you finalize your CY2015 Clinical Laboratory Fee Schedule (CLFS) Preliminary Payment Determinations.