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HHS' RFI - HIPAA Accounting of Disclosures Requirements

The Genome Project:  A Balance Sheet

 Urging solutions to regulatory gaps related to diagnosis data submission for indirect providers. 

Regarding their Meeting on the Oversight of Laboratory Developed Tests 

Regarding the Medicare Physician Fee Schedule Proposed Rule for Calendar Year 2011 

 Regarding Proposed Modifications to the HIPAA Privacy Rule

Regarding the Oversight of LDTs

Senator Tom Harkin to Keynote 9.21 National Journal Summit on Prevention

Regarding Diabetes

 Will reduce patient access to laboratory tests and impose unnecessary burdens on laboratories 

Urge Congress to extend TC Grandfather before year's end 

Medicare Should Change its Requirement for Physician Signatures on Lab Requisition Forms for Patients 

Questions from the Clinical Laboratory Coalition for CMS Regarding Physician Signature Issue

Regarding the Physician signature Rule 

 Regarding DTC Genetic Tests 

 March 17th briefing "The Innovation Revolution".

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Regarding Physician Signature

Genetic Testing = Better Health, Lower Costs

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Welcome to the ACLA Website!

We are pleased to announce that the American Clinical Laboratory Association (ACLA) has an Associate Membership category that will, for the first time, allow health care related companies and organizations including diagnostic manufacturers, non-profits, consultants, investment firms, law firms, information technology, billing firms, and others who work with the laboratory industry to benefit from many of ACLA’s advocacy, education, and collaborative programs as well as meet with the leaders of ACLA member companies.

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elcome to the ACLA Help & Information System. The purpose of this help system is to instruct you on the various features of your website and how to add, edit or delete pieces of content.

The word "content" will be used throughout this entire tutorial. This website is a Content Management System. This means that every time you create a web page, news article, calendar event, member link or other options, each time you are creating new content for this website.

Use the outline below to go through the different help articles.

To replace physician signature requirement with "rule of reason".

To the Ways and Means Committee for its hearing on SGR

A proposed rule by the Health and Human Services (HHS) Office of Inspector General (OIG) was withdrawn in June 2007 which would have potentially exclude Medicare providers, including labs, from the Medicare program for submitting claims containing “excessive charges.” Excessive charges could include a single CPT code for which Medicare pays more than 120 percent of customary and usual charges. ACLA led opposition to this rule on behalf of the laboratory industry and submitted comments on the proposal.

The final 2007 Physician Fee Schedule, published by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) on November 1, 2006, included a number of provisions affecting clinical laboratories and pathology services. Of particular note, CMS accepted all of ACLA’s recommendations for revisions to the technical component of flow cytometry services.

ACLA and a coalition of other health care providers were successful in including in the "Medicare Improvement for Patients and Providers Act of 2008" a provision extending the so-called “technical component grandfather clause” through the end of calendar year 2009 . Using the grandfather clause, Medicare has permitted independent laboratories to bill and receive direct payments from Medicare for both specimen preparation (also known as the technical component of the service) and the diagnosis (known as the professional component) of hospital patient specimens.

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ACLA is an active participant in the development, revision and payment of CPT codes for laboratory tests. ACLA’s CPT Committee works with the Pathology Coding Caucus, which develops consensus recommendations for the AMA’s CPT Editorial Panel for new code applications. ACLA provides recommendations to CMS for payment for new CPT codes at a public meeting each summer and then comments on the payment recommendations from CMS.

ACLA met in March 2006 with the Executive Director of the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission (MedPAC) to present the findings from an independent report on Trends in Medicare Laboratory Testing Services, which showed that any increase in laboratory utilization was consistent with medical practice guidelines. The report sponsored by ACLA and the American Association of Bioanalysts, the American Society for Clinical Laboratory Scientists, AdvaMed, and the Clinical Laboratory Management Association was prepared by Dr. Chris Hogan, Ph.D. At the meeting Dr.

ACLA contacted CMS in January 2005 regarding a Change Request for “Independent Laboratory Billing for the Technical Component of Physician Pathology Services Furnished to Hospital Patients.” The notice appeared to change the application of the covered entity to the laboratory so that the individual laboratory would have needed to have the arrangement with the hospital. CMS advised ACLA that this was not their intention and rescinded the change request.

Francesca Fierro O'Reilly was named Vice President for Government Relations at ACLA in May 2011.

Ms. O’Reilly holds a master's in public administration from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and a bachelor of arts in political science from Davidson College. 

On this day we will have an extended lunch because the new website does not require so much time to add content.

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The layout of your website is fully automated and is implemented through a categorization feature. When creating new content for your website, you must tell the system what kind of content it is that you are creating. For example, if you want to create a news article that would show on the front page, you must tell the system that you are creating a news article. This tutorial will explain how.

The showcase region contains four blocks. Blocks 1 - 4. These blocks are derived from selecting the category corresponding to the desired block in the create content form.

For example, to change the picture or create a new article for Showcase 1, you would select the "Add Content" menu item under "Home." There on the top of the form above the "Title" text field, you will see a block that has a list of categories. Select Showcase1 and then upload a new image and this will replace the current showcase1 block.

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hen adding new content to your website, you may want to "spice" up the appearance of it. There are already pre programmed option that you can use in html format for your content. These options are provided to you on page TYPOGRAPHY. Here you will find all of the available fancy toys that you can add to your pages. Don't be afraid to try them. You can not hurt anything. It is designed for even the most novice of website managers and programmers.

Your front page and all other pages are sorted into regions of content. Each region can contain many blocks of content. The blocks are a filtered location for certain types of content. To add more blocks to a region, either the functionality is already present or you should contact the webmaster to add more for you.

A standard content page is any other page than the front page. This is uniques because the moderator has the option to customized each piece of this content.

This tutorial is about how to create a new showcase item for the front page.

This tutorial is about how to create a News article to be displayed in the website. THis news article will also be displayed on the front page of the site under the Featured News Block.

This tutorial will be all about how to get to and edit site content that is already published.