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 "title": "Medicare Clinical Laboratory Fee Schedule Private Payer Rates and Volumes",
 "summary": "The Medicare Clinical Laboratory Fee Schedule (CLFS) dataset provides raw data reported by any applicable laboratories that reported a volume greater than 10 tests for the data collection period.",
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