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S. 1337 (98th)

Fair Lab Payments Act

openUnited States· United States Congress· EN

Introduced

20 May 1983

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Committee on Finance requested executive comment from OMB, Treasury Department, Health and Human Services Department.

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Fair Lab Payments Act - Amends part B (Supplementary Medical Insurance) of title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to provide that payments with respect to covered diagnostic lab tests shall be 100 percent of the established payment rate. Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services to establish payment rates which shall be considered the full charge for low-cost diagnostic tests (tests which cost $15 or less, increased or decreased annually according to the Consumer Price Index).

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