# Medicare Program; Medicare Clinical Diagnostic Laboratory Tests Payment System
> **Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services** · Final rule. · Published 2016-06-23 · Effective 2016-08-22 · 81 FR 41036
## Document
- **Document number:** 2016-14531
- **Category:** medicare
- **Sub-agency:** Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services
- **Federal Register citation:** 81 FR 41036
- **CFR reference:** 42 CFR 414
- **Publication date:** 2016-06-23
- **Effective date:** 2016-08-22
- **HHS docket:** CMS-1621-F
## Abstract

This final rule implements requirements of section 216 of the Protecting Access to Medicare Act of 2014 (PAMA), which significantly revises the Medicare payment system for clinical diagnostic laboratory tests. This final rule also announces an implementation date of January 1, 2018 for the private payor rate-based fee schedule required by PAMA.

## Source
- [Federal Register document](https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2016/06/23/2016-14531/medicare-program-medicare-clinical-diagnostic-laboratory-tests-payment-system)
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