tci Medicare Compliance & Reimbursement - 2003 Issue 35

LAB COPAY PROVISION STILL ON CONFEREES' TABLE

Meanwhile, labs recruit docs to help oppose copays.Though it's been three months since the House and Senate passed their respective versions of the "Prescription Drug and Medicare Act of 2003," the fate of laboratory copayments remains undecided. The Senate's version of the Medicare bill (S. 1) calls for a 20-percent copayment from all Medicare beneficiaries receiving Part B clinical diagnostic laboratory tests and services. The introduction of lab copayments is intended to offset the costs of expanding rural health care coverage  - a plan that is much favored by Senate Finance Committee Chair Charles Grassley (R-IA). However...

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