CMS has released announcement documents for the summer new lab test pricing meetings (aka "crosswalk, gapfill meetings").
The public comment meeting will be June 22, a Thursday. The expert advisory panel meetings will be July 19/20, a Wednesday/Thursday.
CMS should release an agenda, including all code names, at least 30 days ahead of June 22.
Find the preliminary announcements online at Federal Register here:
The June 22 meeting permanent announcement is here. Presentations due by June 1. Registration will be via email with a specific subject line (for commenters only). Public streaming won't require registration.
The July 19/20 permanent announcement is here. Stakeholders with codes are "standby speakers" who will answer questions if asked, and must pre-register (by email). More details will appear about 2 weeks before the meeting.
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Last year there was a bit of a fuss over whether a code can be crosswalked to a code in the active gapfill process - answer, NO. And whether a code can be crosswalked to an ADLT code. For the latter, CMS has no rule against it, but you can't force CMS to pick an ADLT code as a crosswalk and if they are disinclined to do so, they simply won't. Codes are stated to be crosswalked to, "existing test, multiple existing test codes, or a portion of an existing test code" which doesn't rule-out an ADLT code choice.
