Summary
Provides for an extension of the direct payment for the technical component of some pathology services to certain independent labs through 2010.
Implementation Status
This provision was allowed to lapse when it was not included in the American Taxpayer Relief Act of 2012 (ATRA), which extended a variety of other short-term Medicare payment provisions.
Statutory Text
SEC. 3104. EXTENSION OF PAYMENT FOR TECHNICAL COMPONENT OF CERTAIN PHYSICIAN PATHOLOGY SERVICES. Section 542(c) of the Medicare, Medicaid, and SCHIP Benefits Improvement and Protection Act of 2000 (as enacted into law by section 1(a)(6) of Public Law 106–554), as amended by section 732 of the Medicare Prescription Drug, Improvement, and Modernization Act of 2003 (42 U.S.C. 1395w–4 note), section 104 of division B of the Tax Relief and Health Care Act of 2006 (42 U.S.C. 1395w– 4 note), section 104 of the Medicare, Medicaid, and SCHIP Extension Act of 2007 (Public Law 110–173), and section 136 of the Medicare Improvements for Patients and Providers Act of 2008 (Public Law 110–275), is amended by striking ‘‘and 2009’’ and inserting ‘‘2009, and 2010’’.