Coronavirus antibody test at approximately $42
That rate exceeds investment firm William Blair's $25 estimate for the category of tests, boding well for future reimbursement policy for antigen testing, analysts noted. Last month, the agency doubled its reimbursement for high-throughput molecular diagnostics, which the analysts said has "allowed all parties to run testing at profitable levels.?"
The American Clinical Laboratory Association praised CMS' latest action, saying in a statement it will encourage "a broad cross section of laboratories to rapidly scale up capacity" to perform serological testing.