(ii) OUTSIDE
EXPERTS.—The panel 
may retain the services of such outside ex-
perts as are necessary for the evaluation of 
a request under this section, and such ex-
perts shall not be voting members of the 
panel. 
(D) MEETINGS.—The panel shall meet at 
the call of the chair and at such intervals 
(which shall not be less than quarterly) as may 
be necessary for the conduct of its business. 
The agenda of each meeting and a notice of its 
date shall be published at least 30 days before 
the date the meeting occurs, and, except as pro-
vided in subparagraph (E), meetings of the 
panel shall be open to the public. 
(E) FACA.—The Federal Advisory Com-
mittee Act (5 U.S.C. App.) shall not apply to 
the panel, but the panel may close any portion 
of a meeting that could be closed if such Act 
applied. 
(F) TERMINATION OF PANEL.—The panel 
shall terminate not more than 180 days after 
the close of the demonstration. 
(d) FORM AND CONTENT OF REQUESTS FOR INCLU-
SION IN THE DEMONSTRATION.—A request for inclusion 
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of a clinical diagnostic laboratory test in the demonstra-
tion shall be submitted in such form, and shall contain 
such information as the standing panel may require, in-
cluding at least— 
(1) any coding and payment determinations re-
quested with respect to the test; and 
(2) any documentation in support of— 
(A) the eligibility of the test for inclusion 
in the demonstration; and 
(B) any coding and payment determina-
tions requested with respect to the test, includ-
ing data on the typical resources necessary to 
perform the test. 
The Secretary shall cause to have published in the 
Federal Register and on an appropriate internet site 
public notice of each such request. Such information 
shall be supplied to the Secretary by the standing 
panel. 
(e) CRITERIA FOR EVALUATING REQUESTS FOR DE-
TERMINATIONS IN CODING AND PAYMENT.— 
(1) IN GENERAL.—In determining whether a 
requested payment determination should be granted, 
and what the new payment amount for a test should 
be, the standing panel (in making its recommenda-
tions to the Secretary) and the Secretary (in deter-
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mining whether to grant such a determination) shall 
take into account typical resources necessary to per-
form the test, the expected impact of the test on, 
and value of the test to, patient care management, 
and such other factors as the standing panel and the 
Secretary, respectively, determine to be relevant to 
the determination. 
(2) STANDING
PANEL.—Not later than 180 
days after the appointment of all of the members of 
the panel, the panel shall, after consultation with the 
Secretary, establish and make available to the pub-
lic— 
(A) standards and parameters for deter-
mining whether to recommend to the Secretary 
a coding or payment determination specified in 
a request for inclusion of a test in the dem-
onstration, which shall include a listing of data 
elements necessary to support a request and a 
standardized procedure for collecting and sub-
mitting data to the panel on typical resources 
necessary to perform a test; 
(B) policies and procedures for protecting 
the confidentiality of financial and other propri-
etary data submitted to the panel in support of 
a request; and 
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