ASCP Urges Congress to Address Laboratory Workforce Crisis
ASCP and the ASCP Board of Certification have submitted a statement to the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, urging it to take action to alleviate a critical shortage of laboratory personnel. The statement was submitted in response to the Committee’s recent hearing on Examining Health Care Workforce Shortages: Where Do We Go from Here? Read
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Remote Slide Review Should be Permanent, ASCP Urges CMS
At the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, ASCP successfully persuaded the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services to allow pathologists and laboratory personnel to review slides remotely, without a separate approval of the Clinical Laboratory Improvement Amendments. Now, ASCP says remote slide review should be permanent. Read
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ASCP, AMA Support Reforms to Prior Authorization Proposal
ASCP, the American Medical Association and other organizations are applauding the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid’s proposed reforms of prior authorization to the Medicare Advantage and the Medicare prescription drug benefit programs. Topics they addressed in a recent to CMS include ensuring timely access to care, network adequacy, protecting beneficiaries, strengthening quality, advancing health equity, and health IT standards. Read
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Inside the Lab Episode Amplifies the Voice of Pathology in the AMA
This week’s Inside the Lab features ASCP delegates to the American Medical Association (AMA) discussing laboratory medicine’s representation within the AMA. Guests are ASCP Past President William Finn, MD, MASCP, Jennifer Stall, MD, FASCP, and Cliff Sullivan, MD, FASCP. Read
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