CMS Posts Agenda for Annual Lab Policy Meeting (Monday, July 18).

CMS posts the agenda for the annual laboratory policy meeting.  PDF is online at CMS, here.  I have also clipped the text of the PDF below the break.

There are 15 presentations from the usual suspects - labs which have new codes under review, as well as ACLA, CAP, AMA, AMP, and so on.

Note that CMS promises a live stream of the proceedings.  Expect to find the day archived at the CMS Youtube channel, as well.

After a lunch break, CMS hosts a meeting of the PAMA Clin Lab Advisory Panel, from 1 to 4 pm, but no specific agenda is given.   Panelists will, at a minimum, discuss their take on the new codes that are up for payment proposals.

The actual list of new CPT codes to be discussed was posted a month ago and is online at CMS, here.

Annual Laboratory Public Meeting and

Medicare Advisory Panel on Clinical Diagnostic Laboratory Tests

Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services

Central Office Auditorium (Baltimore, Maryland)

Monday, July 18, 2016

8:30 A.M. – 4:00 P.M.

This meeting provides a forum for interested parties to make presentations and submit written comments on new and reconsidered test codes for the CY 2017 Clinical Laboratory Fee Schedule (CLFS) and other specified CLFS issues. Please note that, for new and reconsidered test codes, we will be discussing only the codes addressed in our Clinical Laboratory Fee Schedule CY 2017 Updates, located on the web at https://www.cms.gov/Medicare/Medicare-Fee-for-Service-Payment/ClinicalLabFeeSched/Laboratory_Public_Meetings.html.

Outside Call-In Number: 1-877-267-1577; WebEx Meeting Number: 991 340 808; password: n/a. Call-in begins at 8:45 am ET on July 18, 2016.

Live Stream Available at http://www.cms.gov/live/. Live stream begins at 8:45 am ET.

AGENDA
8:30 a.m. Arrival and Check-In
9:00 a.m. Welcome and Introductions

Glenn McGuirk
Meeting Facilitator, CMS
Steve Phurrough, M.D.
Panel Chair, CMS

9:15 a.m. Annual Laboratory Public Meeting on New and Reconsidered Laboratory Codes for CY 2017 Public Presentations:

Presenters for New and Reconsidered Codes (Proposed Order)

1. Charles Root, Ph.D. CodeMap, LLC; representing the Waters Corporation
2. Mitch Steiner, M.D. OPKO Health
3. Kristian Foy California Clinical Laboratory Association
4. Cheryl Maplesden Assurance Toxicology Services, LLC; representing National Independent Laboratory Association
5. Vince Stine American Association for Clinical Chemistry
6. Theo deVos Epigenomics Inc.
7. Paul Radensky, M.D., J.D. McDermottPlus Consulting
8. Paul Rudolf, M.D. Arnold & Porter, LLP; representing Aegis Sciences Corporation
9. Robert Jerris, Ph.D. American Society for Microbiology
10. Aaron Bossler, M.D., Ph.D. Association for Molecular Pathology
11. Ronald McLawhon, M.D., Ph.D. College of American Pathologists
12. Paul Sheives American Clinical Laboratory Association
13. Sri Kotte Natera, Inc.
14. Sylvia Trujillo American Medical Association
15. Lee Hilborne, M.D. American Society for Clinical Pathology

Note: Presentations and written comments should specifically address CY 2017 New and 
Reconsidered Codes


12:00 p.m. Lunch Break

12:30 p.m. Arrival and Check-In (for participants attending only the afternoon session)

1:00 p.m. Welcome and Panel Introductions
Steve Phurrough, M.D
Panel Chair, CMS Medical Officer

1:15 p.m. Panel Deliberations
4:00 p.m. Adjourn