Archived News

 

04/23/2012
NILA Comment on CMS Proposed Rule - Medicare Program: Reporting and Returning of Overpayments

04/23/2012
NILA Requests Mid-Year Increase to Mileage Reimbursement

02/24/2012
SAGE Commission Proposal

02/17/2012
Congress Includes Lab Cuts in Physician Pay Fix

02/16/2012
Alert! Lab Cuts Being Considered to Pay for Physician Pay Fix

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02/16/2012
IMMEDIATE ATTENTION NEEDED: Congress Proposes to Cut Labs

01/27/2012
Bill Introduced by Congressman Burgess that would have CLIA Regulate Laboratory Developed Tests (LDTs)

01/06/2012
FDA Issues Final Guidance for Industry: Current Good Tissue Practice and Additional Requirements for Manufacturers of Human Cells, Tissues, and Cellular and Tissue-Based Products

12/23/2011
Medicare Physician Fee Schedule, Final Rule

12/14/2011
IRS Issues 2012 Mileage Rates - Part B Travel Allowance Unchanged for 2012

12/02/2011
2012 Physician Fee Schedule Final Rule

11/09/2011
Congressional Inquiry into Quest/LabCorp Billing Practices

11/01/2011
2011 Version of Advance Beneficiary Notice of Noncoverage Must Be Used Beginning Sunday, January 1, 2012

10/21/2011
Final Regulations for Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs)

09/23/2011
New CY 2012 Lab Test Codes

09/02/2011
CMS Increases Travel Allowance

08/02/2011
Text of Debt Ceiling Agreement

07/07/2011
Opposition to Medicare Part B Coinsurance

07/05/2011
IRS Notification - Increase in Standard Mileage Rate

06/30/2011
Physician Signature Update Press Release from Congressman Michael C. Burgess, M.D.

06/30/2011
CMS Publishes Retraction to Physician Signature Requirement

06/24/2011
IRS Increases Federal Mileage Rate

06/08/2011
Coalition Statement in Opposition to AB 3551/SB 4660
(Voiding of NY Anti-Self Referral Provisions Applicable to Clinical Labs)

04/05/2011
Over $5 Million Returned by New York to AAB Laboratories

04/01/2011
Update on Physician Signature Requirement on Part B Lab Requisitions

03/31/2011
CMS Directive to Carriers RE: Physician Signature Requirement

03/31/2011
HHS Publishes Proposed Rule for Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs)

02/17/2011
AAB Wins Major Victory in New York

02/11/2011
CMS to Withdraw Physician Signature Rule!

02/08/2011
Grassroots Information for Physician Signature Requirement on Requisitions

02/08/2011
Questions for CMS Regarding Physician Signature Issue

12/21/2010
CMS Announces Delay in Physician Signature Requirement

12/08/2010
Clinical Lab Coalition Opposes CMS Requirement for Physician Signatures on Part B Lab Requisitions

12/01/2010
Part B Clinical Laboratory Fee Schedule (CLFS) to Decrease by 1.75% on January 1, 2011

11/08/2010
CMS to Require Physician Signatures on Part B Requisitions Beginning January 1, 2011

08/26/2010
Ten Major Laboratory Organizations Oppose CMS Proposal to Require Physician Signatures on Requisitions

08/19/2010
NILA Signs Coalition Letter Opposing CMS Proposal to Require Physician Signature on Requisitions

08/11/2010
AAB's Comments on FDA's "Oversight of Laboratory Developed Tests"

08/11/2010
AAB and NILA Win Final Battle in Competitive Bidding Lawsuit

08/06/2010
CMS Proposes Requiring Physician Signatures On All Lab Requisitions

08/06/2010
Laboratory Community Opposes CMS Proposed Rule on Physician Signature Requirements for Clinical Laboratory Requisitions

07/22/2010
AAB Laboratories Score Yet Another Victory Over New York State Department of Health

04/01/2010
Labs Clear Court Hurdle on Returning Bid Applications

03/18/2010
Package of House Amendments to the Senate Health Care Reform Bill

03/18/2010
CBO Score for House Amendments

03/18/2010
Basic Introduction to ICD-10-CM CMS Sponsored Conference Call, Tuesday, March 23

12/29/2009
Standard Mileage Rate Drops To 50 Cents

11/25/2009
CMS Policy on Signatures on Requisitions

08/07/2009
Laboratory Co-insurance

07/16/2009
Medicare Program; Payment Policies Under the Physician Fee Schedule and Other Revisions to Part B for CY 2010; Proposed Rule, Federal Register, July 13, 2009

07/11/2009
OIG - Variation in the Clinical Laboratory Fee Schedule

04/03/2009
CMS Transmittal announcing the 4.5% CPI increase to the 2009 Part B fee schedule, December 19, 2008

 


 

For archived information before April 2009 see the following web pages on the site of the American Association of Bioanalysts (AAB):  

ABB AMS BOR CRB EBPH NILA