On August 6, 2015, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) announced the appointment of members to the PAMA Advisory Panel on Clinical Diagnostic Laboratory Tests and the panel’s first meeting will be held on August 26, 2015. The Advisory Panel was established by the Protecting Access to Medicare Act of 2014 (PAMA) to advise the Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) and CMS on issues related to clinical diagnostic laboratory tests.
Agenda for August 26, 2015, PAMA Advisory Panel Meeting
CMS Clinical Laboratory Fee Schedule CY 2016 Proposed Updates
August 7, 2015, Federal Register Notice of PAMA Advisory Committee Appointments, August 26 Meeting
Steve Phurrough M.D., Panel Chair, CMS Medical Officer
Geoffrey Baird, M.D., Ph.D.
Vickie Baselski, Ph.D.
Stephen N. Bauer, M.D.
William Clarke, Ph.D., M.B.A., DABCC, FACB
Judith Davis, M.S.
Stanley R. Hamilton, M.D.
Curtis A. Hanson, M.D.
Kandice Kottke-Marchant, M.D., Ph.D.
Raju Kucherlapati, Ph.D.
Bryan A. Loy, M.D., M.B.A.
Gail Marcus, M.S.E., M.B.A.
Carl Morrison, M.D., D.V.M.
Victoria M. Pratt, Ph.D., FACMG
Michele M. Schoonmaker, Ph.D.
Rebecca Sutphen, M.D.