{"id":12117,"date":"2018-12-03T11:28:28","date_gmt":"2018-12-03T16:28:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=12117"},"modified":"2018-12-03T11:28:28","modified_gmt":"2018-12-03T16:28:28","slug":"new-medicare-rates-could-boost-lab-costs-by-11b-gao-warns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=12117","title":{"rendered":"New Medicare rates could boost lab costs by $11B, GAO warns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(By Alia Paavola for <em>Becker&#8217;s Hospital Review<\/em>)<\/p>\n<p>The implementation of CMS&#8217; new clinical lab payment rates in Medicare could increase costs by $11 billion between 2018 and 2020, according to a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.gao.gov\/assets\/700\/695756.pdf\">new report\u00a0<\/a>from the Government Accountability Office. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.beckershospitalreview.com\/finance\/new-medicare-rates-could-boost-lab-costs-by-11b-gao-warns.html?origin=cfoe&amp;utm_source=cfoe\">Continue reading article here&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/CMS-logo.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-7780\" src=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/CMS-logo-300x105.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"105\" srcset=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/CMS-logo-300x105.jpg 300w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/CMS-logo.jpg 382w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<pre>Notice: The link provided above connects readers to the full content of the posted article. The URL (internet address) for this link is valid on the posted date; medicarereport.org cannot guarantee the duration of the link\u2019s validity. Also, the opinions expressed in these postings are the viewpoints of the original source and are not explicitly endorsed by AMAC, Inc.; the AMAC Foundation, Inc.; or medicarereport.org.<\/pre>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(By Alia Paavola for Becker&#8217;s Hospital Review) The implementation of CMS&#8217; new clinical lab payment rates in Medicare could increase<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,21,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12117","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cms","category-health-care-finance","category-medicare-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12117","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12117"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12117\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12118,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12117\/revisions\/12118"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}