This notice announces a public meeting to receive comments and recommendations (including accompanying data on which recommendations are based) from the public on the appropriate basis for establishing payment amounts for new or substantially revised Healthcare Common Procedure Coding System (HCPCS) codes being considered for Medicare payment under the clinical laboratory fee schedule (CLFS) for calendar year (CY) 2019. This meeting also provides a forum for those who submitted certain reconsideration requests regarding final determinations made last year on new test codes and for the public to provide comment on the requests. The Medicare Advisory Panel on Clinical Diagnostic Laboratory Tests (Advisory Panel on CDLTs) will participate in this Annual Laboratory Public Meeting by gathering information and asking questions to presenters, and will hold its next public meeting on July 16 and 17, 2018. The public meeting for the Advisory Panel on CDLTs will focus on discussion of and recommendations for test codes presented during the June 25, 2018 Annual Laboratory Public Meeting. The Panel meeting also will address other CY 2019 CLFS issues that are designated in the Panel’s charter and specified on the meeting agenda may also be discussed.

This document announces the deletion of four Healthcare Common Procedure Coding System (HCPCS) codes from the Master List of Items Frequently Subject to Unnecessary Utilization that could be potentially subject to Prior Authorization as a condition of …

This notice announces the appointment of three new members to the Medicare Advisory Panel on Clinical Diagnostic Laboratory Tests (the Panel) and the next public meeting for the Panel, which is scheduled on Monday, July 16, 2018 and Tuesday, July 17, 2…