COLA comments on new Clinical Laboratory Fee Schedule

COLA Shares Data on the Impact of Medicare Cuts on Patient Access to Clinical Laboratory Testing

COLA, a physician-directed, non-profit laboratory accrediting organization, recently pointed to their study data showing the importance of near patient testing to the elderly and medically frail and calls upon the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) and Congress to consider how the anticipated steep cuts from the new Clinical Laboratory Fee Schedule will harm access…