Coverage & Reimbursement

AABB promotes coverage and reimbursement policies that support patients’ access to blood products, and transfusion services and cellular therapies. The Association educates policymakers, payers, blood centers and providers on the complexities of coding, billing and reimbursement policies, and advocates for improved coverage and reimbursement policies.

Policy Priorities

Protect and improve coverage and reimbursement policies related to blood, blood products, transfusion medicine and cellular therapies.
Advance coverage and payment policies that support patients’ access to medically necessary transfusion medicine and cellular therapies throughout the continuum of care.

Activities

2022

2021

Statement in Support of the Improving Access to Transfusion Care for Hospice Patients Act of 2021

2020

2019

2018

2017

2016

2015

Joint Comments to CMS on Proposed Rule “Medicare Program: Hospital Outpatient Prospective Payment and Ambulatory Surgical Center Payment Systems and Quality Reporting Programs” (pdf)