Coalition for 21st Century Medicine Commends CMS for Issuing the Application and Designation Process for Advanced Diagnostic Laboratory Tests as Part of PAMA Implementation
On March 23, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) released the long awaited application and designation process for Advanced Diagnostic Laboratory Tests (ADLTs) as required by the market-based payment reforms enacted in Section 216 of the Protecting Access to Medicare Act of 2014 (PAMA). The Coalition for 21st Century Medicine (C21) strongly supported the enactment of these PAMA requirements to establish transparent, predictable and market-based pricing for new innovative clinical diagnostic laboratory tests.