Summary:
In 2014, Congress passed the Protecting Access to Medicare Act (PAMA) [Public Law 113-93],
establishing the Medicare Appropriate Use Criteria (AUC) Program for advanced diagnostic
imaging, mandating, among other things, the prescribed use of AUC decision support tools.
Nearly seven years later, AUC program implementation and rulemaking are incomplete, prompting concerns about the law’s complexity and the cost and regulatory burden incurred by physicians and other health care providers to meet program requirements if the program were ever to
take effect — in whole or in part.
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