COLA requests expansion of GAO report on PAMA to Include Patient Impact

COLA, a nationally recognized private, non-profit laboratory accreditation organization, recently sent a letter to the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) requesting an expansion of its recent report on the implementation of rate cuts to the Clinical Laboratory Fee Schedule (CLFS). The GAO, in a November 2018 report entitled, “Medicare Laboratory Tests: Implementation of New Rates…