ePolicy News December 2022

December 14, 2022

ASCP Continues Advocacy Against the VALID Act
As the current legislative session winds down, ASCP is continuing its efforts to stop the Verifying Accurate Leading-edge IVCT Development Act, or VALID Act, from being signed into law. We need your help! Read more.

Ten Million Listeners Tune in to ASCP Radio Campaign to Learn about Role of Medical Laboratory

This past fall, 10 million people tuned in to NBC News Radio and other affiliate stations nationwide to hear then ASCP President Henry Rinder, MD, FASCP, ASCP Past President Kimberly Sanford, MD, MASCP, MT(ASCP), and ASCP Chief Medical Quality Officer Ali Brown, MD, FASCP, talking about the importance of the medical laboratory and its role in patient care. Read more.

Help Improve Lab Payment Rates!

ASCP urges members to join the effort to fix problems with Medicare’s Clinical Laboratory Fee Schedule (CLFS), which has caused significant cuts to Medicare and private payer payment rates for laboratory services. Read more.

ASCP Needs Your Help to Reverse Cuts to Medicare Physician Fee Schedule

ASCP is working with the American Medical Association to get Congress to override a 4.5-percent cut to the Medicate physician fee schedule, which PFS pays for both pathologists’ professionals services and the technical services provided by laboratory professionals. Read more.

Enact the PREVENT PANDEMICS Act: ASCP

In a letter to congressional leaders, ASCP encouraged lawmakers to address the trifecta of respiratory illnesses—Flu, RSV, and COVID-19—currently confronting the nation’s public healthcare system. Read more.

ASCP Urges Congress to Pass Sickle Cell Legislation
ASCP has joined with 50 organizations, to appeal to Congress to include the Sickle Cell Disease Comprehensive Care Act in an end-of-year legislative package. The legislation outlines important steps toward addressing the needs of those living with sickle cell disease. Read more.

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