Tag Archives: Medicare (see also Medicare entries under Capitol Scan)

July 2018—The March 16 announcement of a new Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services coverage policy for next-​generation-sequencing–based diagnostic lab tests for patients with advanced cancer did not appear out of the blue, since a draft policy was issued last fall.

October 2002—Laboratory specialty groups praised the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services for how it handled its recent meeting on payments for new clinical laboratory tests. CMS went so far as to say it would reconsider previous pricing decisions, a surprising and welcome change from its traditional “black box”approach.