CMS Public Meeting on Clinical Lab Payments (July 14, 2009)
CMS is holding a public meeting on July 14, 2009 regarding Medicare payment amounts for new clinical laboratory tests for calendar year 2010. CMS specifically is interested in comments and recommendations (and data on which recommendations are based) regarding the appropriate basis for establishing payment amounts for a specified list of new CPT codes (cross-walking or gap-fill). CMS notes that the development of the clinical laboratory CPT codes is largely performed by the CPT Editorial Panel, however, and will not be further discussed at the CMS meeting.
