Topic
Diagnostic Testing
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Health Industry Washington Watch
CMS Postpones Signature Requirement for Clinical Diagnostic Laboratory Test Orders
The final 2011 Medicare physician fee schedule rule requires a physician's or qualified nonphysician practitioner's (NPP) signature on requisitions for clinical diagnostic laboratory tests paid under the clinical laboratory fee…
Reproductive Rights Prof Blog
At-Home Test that Purports to Determine Fetus’s Gender Goes on Sale in UAE
EmiratesBusiness: Home test could lead to more abortions, by Rachel McArthur:Controversial product allows expectant mothers to find out the gender of their unborn baby at just 10 weeks. A controversial new…
Worms & Germs Blog
MRSA testing and false advertising
By Scott Weese
I received a flyer from Zoologix, a company that offers various (typically unvalidated and unproven) PCR tests for animals. The flyer headline was "Pets can carry MRSA - but testing…
InsureReinsure
Revisions to Anti-Markup Rule for Purchased Diagnostic Tests: What You Don’t Know Can Hurt You
On November 19, 2008, as part of the 2009 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule regulations, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (“CMS”), published…
Health Care Law Matters
Changes to Medicare Anti-Markup Rules Effective January 1, 2009
Does your practice bill Medicare for diagnostic tests? If so, you have until January 1, 2009 to make sure your arrangements comply with the now very complicated anti-markup rule.
Traumatic Brain Injury Law Blog
Advances in Diagnostic Testing
Research on sophisticated diagnostic tests were presented this weekend at the annual meeting of the society for neuroscience in Washington, D.C. According to a report published in USA Today, researchers…
Med Law Blog
Medicare 2009 IDTF Proposals
Medicare is proposing that all physician practices providing diagnostic testing must enroll as independent diagnostic testing facilities effective as of September 30, 2009. A copy of the comments on the…
Med Law Blog
The New Medicare Anti-Markup Diagnostistic Test Results
The Medicare Anti-Markup provisions for diagnostic tests, which will be effective as of January 1, 2008, are intended to prevent physicians or other medical suppliers from purchasing either the professional…
Health Care Law Matters
Medicare Changes Diagnostic Testing Rules and IDTF Rules
The much awaited 2008 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule has finally been formally published in the Federal Register (click here to read it). The proposed Fee Schedule published in June of…
Med Law Blog
Prohibited Mark-up of Diagnostic Tests: Text of Proposed 2008 Medicare Regs
PART 414--PAYMENT FOR PART B MEDICAL AND OTHER HEALTH SERVICES 24. The authority citation for part 414 is revised to read as follows: Authority: Secs. 1102, 1871, and 1881(b)(1) of…