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The FDA issued guidance to expand testing capacity by facilitating the development of molecular SARS-CoV-2 diagnostic assays (coronavirus).

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The House Ways & Means Committee overwhelmingly voted to support the CAP-backed Consumer Protections Against Surprise Medical Bills Act of 2020 to resolve billing disputes between insurers and physicians.

The House Ways and Means Committee released legislation that features provisions advocated for by the CAP to resolve billing disputes between insurers and physicians.

The CAP urged CMS to consider the complexity of pathology practice when requiring group health plans to disclose price and cost-sharing information.

The CAP, the AMA, and ten other physician groups engaged with Congress on developing bipartisan legislation that will protect patients from surprise bills and safeguard access to care.

The CAP and the AMA took issue with proposed scope of practice policy changes and their potential adverse impacts on the quality of patient care.

Solutions provided by the CAP allowed pathologists to prevent a -5% penalty to their Medicare reimbursement in 2020.

The CAP urged the CMS to adjust several proposed changes to the Medicare physician self-referral law, commonly referred to as the Stark law.

Before going to recess for 2019, Congress passed a $1.4 trillion spending package for 2020 and listened to the CAP’s concerns regarding rates for out-of-network care.

While Congress debated how to address surprise medical bills, the CAP mobilized pathologists to engage representatives and senators to ensure our views were heard.

At the 2019 AMA Interim Meeting, the CAP advocated to reinstate autopsy hospital standard and pushes back on step therapy protocols.

The CAP participated at the Clinical Laboratory Improvement Advisory Committee and sought to ensure regulations keep up with emerging technologies.

The CAP, the American Medical Association, and 100 other medical societies raised concerns in a recent letter to the Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services regarding a proposal to loosen current Medicare scope of practice restraints.

The CAP will fight the sharp Medicare cuts to Pathologists finalized in 2020 Fee Schedule, while it did succeed in protecting pathology reporting measures.

CAP members met with congressional offices and urged them to back a fair payment formula and arbitration process when physicians’ services are unexpectedly provided out of network to patients.

The CAP, along with other physician specialties, applauded Reps. Raul Ruiz, MD (D-CA) and Phil Roe, MD (R-TN) for gaining 100 cosponsors for their bipartisan surprise medical bill legislation.

The CAP is urging its membership to directly contact government officials with their concerns for removing the requirement of an autopsy program as a condition for hospital participation in Medicare.