CLINICAL LAB MEDICARE COMPETITIVE BIDDING OPPOSED IN OCT. 31 LETTER FROM INDUSTRY/MEDICAL GROUPS; PROJECT TARGETS CHEMISTRY, HEMATOLOGY, SEROLOGY TESTS
This article was originally published in The Gray Sheet
Executive Summary
Medicare competitive bidding for clinical laboratory services should be delayed for at least two years, a group of laboratory and medical associations say in an Oct. 31 letter to Nancy-Ann Minn DeParle, acting administrator of the Health Care Financing Administration.