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Congress Recognizes Impact of Clinical Laboratories, Free Labucate Course, New Patient Safety Program, and more. Renew Your Membership Today ASCLS is currently renewing memberships for the 2022-23 Society year. For those of you who have not yet renewed, paper notices will arrive by mail in the next few weeks. Renew your membership by July 31…
Earlier today (Tuesday June 14 2022), the Senate Health, Education, Labor & Pensions (HELP) Committee held a hearing on S.4348, the Food and Drug Administration Safety and Landmark Advancements (FDASLA) Act, and voted to move the bill to the full Senate for its consideration. This bill includes the current version of the Verifying Accurate, Leading-edge…
Membership Renewal Season Begins, Free Webinar on Diabetes Diagnosis, Volunteer Opportunities, and more. Membership Renewal Season ASCLS has already begun the 2022-23 membership renewal season. Thank you to the over 850 members who renewed early, saving the Society significant funds that would have been spent on paper mailings. For those of you who have not…
Free Webinar, Lab Week Celebrations, Early Registration for the Joint Annual Meeting, and more. Medical Laboratory Professionals Week: Get Ready to Celebrate! Free ASCLS Webinar Complementary Role of Cytology and Molecular Testing in Thyroid Nodule Management Tuesday, April 26, 12 pm EDT This presentation will provide an overview of the diagnostic evaluation of thyroid nodules…
Volunteer opportunities, student scholarships and paper competition, call for poster abstracts, upcoming events, and more. Volunteer for ASCLS Committees Apply by March 1 Applications are now open for national committee appointments with terms beginning in August 2022. “The greatest asset of any organization is its members capacity to share their time, knowledge, and talent.” It’s…
New ASCLS webinar on C. auris, call for volunteers, time for ASCLS award nominations, upcoming events, and more. Free Member Webinar C. Auris: A Powerful Threat to Public Health Right in Our Own Backyard February 24, 7 pm EST Speaker: Kerianne Fuoco, MHA, MLS(ASCP)CM, Laboratory Supervisor, Microbiology, Jersey Shore University Medical Center Candida auris is…
ASCLS Celebrates a Labvocacy Win, A Gift of Free CE for You, Virtual Events in January, Apply for ASCLS Awards and Scholarships, and more. ASCLS Celebrates a Labvocacy Win PAMA Cuts Delayed to January 2023 On December 10, after a successful advocacy effort on the part of ASCLS and our colleagues at every other laboratory…
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…
Take Action to Delay Disastrous Medicare Cuts to Clinical Labs; Handmade for the Holidays Silent Auction Benefits ASCLS Education & Research Fund; Sign Up for CE Events; and more. Take Action to Delay Disastrous Medicare Cuts to Clinical Laboratories Congress Needs to Hear Your Story Take action now! Cuts to the Medicare Clinical Laboratory Fee…
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…