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December 10, 2024
ASCP Presses Case Against FDA Oversight of LDTs
ASCP is continuing its fight against the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) Final Rule regulating laboratory developed tests (LDTs) and to stop legislation that would stymie the ability of clinical laboratories to provide these services to support quality patient care. Learn more about this multi-pronged effort and discover how you can take action. Read more.
Congress Should Fix Medicare Payment Now
With the 2024 election over, Congress has entered yet another “lame duck” legislative session. It has until January 2nd to finish up all its unfinished legislative business. It should reform how Medicare pays for physician and clinical laboratory services before then. Read more.
The recently published 2023 ASCP wage survey report reveals an upward trend in the salaries for most laboratory professionals. Some of these improvements, however, are offset by inflation. In addition to collecting data on workforce parameters, the report also identifies visibility as a key factor in advancing the profession and provides examples of how the laboratory community is responding to laboratory workforce shortages. Read more.
ASCP Proudly Supports Comprehensive Care for Individuals with Sickle Cell Disease
ASCP, along with more than 90 other like-minded organizations, recently expressed support for the Sickle Cell Disease Comprehensive Care Act. This bipartisan legislation aims to ensure that individuals with sickle cell disease (SCD) have better access to coordinated, high-quality outpatient care by allowing states to establish Medicaid Health Home programs with SCD as the single qualifying condition for eligibility. Read more.
ASCP Awards Global Health Fellowship
ASCP recently awarded Aisha Mohamed, MD, the ASCP Trainee Global Health Fellowship. Dr. Mohamed is a pathology resident (PGY-2) in the Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology at the University of Minnesota Medical School. Through this global health fellowship opportunity, Dr. Mohamed will work closely to support the implementation of a prostate cancer screening and awareness program at Kilimanjaro Christian Medical Centre (KCMC) in Moshi, Tanzania. Read more.
ASCP Amazing Lab Race Goes to New York
ASCP and the Association for Diagnostics and Laboratory Medicine (formerly the American Association of Clinical Chemists) convened their joint Central New York/Upper New York regional annual conference in Verona, NY, in November called “Where Heroes ColLABorate.” At the event, ASCP members Christy Nickel, MHA, MLS(ASCP)CM, CPHQ and Aaron Odegard, MS, MLS(ASCP)CMSM hosted the highly lauded ASCP Amazing Lab Race with conference attendees. Read more.
ASCP Endorses Key Public Health Bills
ASCP has provided its support for several bills designed to improve America’s public health infrastructure. ASCP is proud to endorse the Public Health Funding Restoration Act, which would restore the Prevention and Public Health Fund (PPHF) to its original $2 billion allocation under the Affordable Care Act. ASCP is also endorsing the Public Health Infrastructure Saves Lives Act, which would address chronic underfunding of state, local, tribal and territorial public health infrastructure through a dedicated investment in foundational public health capabilities and workforce. Read more.
HRSA Offers Scholarship Funding Laboratory Science Training Programs. Apply by Feb. 19!
The Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) is offering scholarship funding to laboratory science training programs for medical laboratory students who have economic needs. The applications are due by February 19. The federal Scholarships for Disadvantaged Students program increases diversity in the health professions and nursing workforce by providing awards to eligible health professions schools for use in awarding scholarships to students from disadvantaged backgrounds who have financial need, including students who are members of racial and ethnic minority groups. Read more.
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