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- BREAKING: Congress Set to Delay Cuts to Medicare Clinical Lab Fees Until 2026
Medicare cuts to the clinical laboratory fee schedule would be delayed for one year if legislation to avert a government shutdown is signed into law later this week. A bill to keep the government open released by House lawmakers on September 22 included legislative language to also delay the Medicare cuts to lab fees. The CAP has opposed the cuts and is actively lobbying Congress to enact a permanent solution. In the meantime, the CAP supports temporary measures that prevent the Medicare cuts of up to 15% to certain laboratory tests.
The three-month government funding bill is expected to pass both chambers of Congress before lawmakers adjourn for their October recess on September 27. The legislative text can be found here with the delay to Medicare cuts language printed on page 39.