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- Lawmakers discuss fix to lab cuts at House hearing
In last week’s congressional hearing, members of the Energy & Commerce Subcommittee on Health discussed several pieces of legislation that could be part of a broader health care reform package in the future.
The impact: Lawmakers wanted to discuss a bill supported by the CAP—the Reforming and Enhancing Sustainable Updates to Laboratory Testing Services (RESULTS) Act of 2025.
- Medicare will cut payment for more than 800 clinical lab tests by up to 15% unless Congress acts before February.
- Before the hearing, the CAP recirculated its letter of support for the RESULTS Act—which would stop the cuts and make other reforms to Medicare clinical lab fees—among committee members.
Snapshot: Rep. John Joyce, MD (R-PA), expressed support for the RESULTS Act and asked Susan Van Meter, president of the American Clinical Laboratory Association, who testified at the hearing, how the cuts will affect Medicare patients. Van Meter also emphasized the importance of avoiding cuts that would affect rural laboratories' ability to provide these services and protect their patients’ access to care.
"We're tremendously concerned that these sustained cuts can lead to longer turnaround time for patients to get the results they deserve, to have test menus curtailed for those laboratories that [focus] on the most common routine tests that are essential to everyday care," said Van Meter.
What's next: CAP members can use the Action Alert Center to continue urging Congress to pass the RESULTS Act and stop additional payment cuts.
Go deeper: Watch the hearing and read the summary.