Advisory Panel on Clinical Diagnostic Laboratory Tests Agenda
Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS)
Webinar Broadcasting from CMS Central Office Auditorium (Baltimore, Maryland) Monday, September 25, 2017
This meeting provides a forum for interested parties to make presentations and submit written comments on codes with no applicable information to calculate Medicare payment rates based on weighted median of private payor rates. The Medicare Advisory Panel on Clinical Diagnostic Laboratory Tests (the Panel) did not deliberate and provide recommendations regarding the payment for these clinical diagnostic laboratory test (CDLTs) during the Public Meeting Regarding New and Reconsidered Clinical Diagnostic Laboratory Test Codes for the Clinical Laboratory Fee Schedule for CY 2018 (2017 CLFS Public Meeting) and the Panel meeting on July 31 through August 1, 2017. Please note that list of CDLTs that will be discussed during this meeting is available on the CMS Web site, in the document entitled “2017 Clinical Laboratory Test Codes with No Data,” at .

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AGENDA

9:00 a.m. Welcome and Panel Introductions
Karen Nakano, M.D
Panel Chair, CMS Medical Officer

9:15 a.m. Session 1(each code will be discussed individually as follows):
1. Introduction of the code
2. Public recommendations on crosswalking or gapfilling
3. Panel Deliberations
4. Panel Voting
5. Introduction of the next code

12:00 p.m. Lunch Break

1:00 p.m. Session 1: continuation of individual code introduction, public recommendations and Panel deliberations and voting.

4:00 p.m. Meeting Adjourns

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