Take Action! Help Improve Medicare Payments

ASCP is asking ASCP members and nonmembers alike to urge Congress to fix the Medicare Physician and Clinical Laboratory Fee Schedules (PFS and CLFS, respectively). Payment cuts and the lack of an inflationary adjustment means that payment rates for pathology and laboratory services have declined significantly over the last two decades. With insurers benchmarking their rates to these fee schedules, reforming these fee schedules is essential. Click here to use ASCP’s eAdvocacy Center.

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