OIG: Improve Medicare rate-setting for clinical diagnostic lab tests
- CMS’ procedures for setting Medicare rates for clinical diagnostic lab tests could improve for future public health emergencies, according to a new report from the Office of the Inspector General (OIG). OIG said in the report that, during the COVID-19 public health emergency, current Medicare rate-setting procedures “did not allow the...
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