Final PAMA Regulations Published in Federal Register

The final regulations implementing Section 216 of the Protecting Access to Medicare Act of 2014 (PAMA) were published in the June 23, 2016, Federal Register.

Below are links to the Federal Register, NILA’s June 18, 2016, press release with comments on the PAMA regulations, CMS’s June 17, 2016, press release announcing issuance of the regulations, a CMS “Fact Sheet” about the regulations and the pre-publication version of the regulations:

• Federal Register, June 23, 2016, Excerpt: Final PAMA Regulations
• NILA Press Release, June 18, 2016
• CMS Press Release, June 17, 2016
• CMS Fact Sheet
• Pre-Publication Version of the final PAMA Regulations