Labvocacy efforts to prevent PAMA cuts have generated a new bill in the House of Representatives Rules Committee. Among its provisions, the “Protecting Medicare and American Farmers from Sequester Cuts Act” would delay any cuts under PAMA for one year until January of 2023. This will give the laboratory community time to work on a…
Congress needs to hear your story. Cuts to the Medicare Clinical Laboratory Fee schedule threaten to further erode the precarious finances of America’s clinical laboratories, severely limiting their ability to staff laboratories and pushing an exhausted workforce even further into burnout. These cuts will severely limit access to laboratory services that over 56 million seniors…
Today, the American Society for Clinical Laboratory Science (ASCLS) and the Association of Genetic Technologists (AGT) announced the two groups would hold their annual meetings jointly beginning in June 2019 in Charlotte, North Carolina. The partnership was possible after the Society’s decision earlier this year to hold its Annual Meeting independently for the first time…
The laboratory community is being presented a once-in-a-generation opportunity to guide the updating of CLIA regulations to reflect the current and future practices in clinical laboratories that support clinical decision-making in an ever-evolving healthcare system. In advance of a March 12, 2018 deadline, CMS is requesting information, comments, information, evidence, research, and trends related to…
AND This #GivingTuesday, you can support your fellow laboratorians with a donation to the ASCLS Education & Research Fund. Each year, the E & R Fund provides more than $10,000 in scholarships and research grants to deserving clinical laboratory students and professionals. Grants have allowed researchers to: Secure sickle cell test…
Earlier today, in its formal comments sent in response to the release of preliminary pricing for the 2018 Clinical Laboratory Fee Schedule (CLFS), ASCLS urged the Department of Health and Human Services to postpone implementation of the new CLFS until it can work with stakeholders to properly collect data that accurately reflects the market and…
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) is proposing more than $600 million in cuts to laboratory reimbursements beginning January 1, 2018, with total cuts rising to as much as $1.5 billion annually compared to current reimbursement levels by 2020. These cuts are part of a flawed implementation of the Preserving Access to…
Suzanne Campbell, PhD, MLS(ASCP)CM ASCLS President During the ASCLS Board of Director’s Long Range Planning Day in March 2016, a unique critical objective for the organization was developed. As the foundation of our new strategic map, ASCLS will “actively engage and prepare medical laboratory professionals to meet the demands of the evolving healthcare environment.” When…
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