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Healthcare News: CMS proposes changes to lab reporting in 2016 OPPS proposed rule

CMS is proposing a new status indicator to be assigned to laboratory tests so when the tests are the only service on a claim, CMS will pay for them separately under the Clinical Laboratory Fee Schedule without providers having to do anything additional from a reporting perspective.

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