{"id":8931,"date":"2017-12-13T05:00:18","date_gmt":"2017-12-13T10:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=8931"},"modified":"2017-12-12T14:16:48","modified_gmt":"2017-12-12T19:16:48","slug":"the-american-clinical-laboratory-association-sues-cms-over-reimbursement-cuts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=8931","title":{"rendered":"The American Clinical Laboratory Association sues CMS over reimbursement cuts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The American Clinical Laboratory Association (ACLA) filed a lawsuit (American Clinical Laboratory Association V Hargan, U.S. District Court, District of Columbia, NO. 17-cv-2645), challenging a new reimbursement system used by the federal government that it said would reduce how much Medicare pays for labs by about $670 million in 2018.\u00a0 The lawsuit states the U.S. Centers for Medicare &amp; Medicaid Services (CMS) ignored Congressional intent by implementing the new system following the passage of a 2014 law. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-healthcare-medicare\/medical-lab-trade-group-sues-over-u-s-reimbursement-cuts-idUSKBN1E52GF?feedType=RSS&amp;feedName=healthNews\">Read article here&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/court.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-7787\" src=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/court-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/court-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/court.jpg 700w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<pre><strong>Notice<\/strong>: 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","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The American Clinical Laboratory Association (ACLA) filed a lawsuit (American Clinical Laboratory Association V Hargan, U.S. District Court, District of<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,19,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8931","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cms","category-legal-actionscourt-decisions","category-medicare-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8931","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=8931"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8931\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8932,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8931\/revisions\/8932"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8931"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8931"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8931"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}