On Dec. 28, 2023, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) released a final rule that updates Clinical Laboratory Improvement Amendments of 1988 (CLIA) fees and clarifies CLIA regulations.
Demand for COVID-19 tests, including over-the-counter at-home tests, has soared with the surge of the Omicron variant of the COVID-19 virus. However, health care providers, employers, and individuals ...
CAP accreditation is recognized as a leading benchmark for laboratory quality, reflecting rigorous standards for operational excellence, technical competence, and quality oversight. Together with CLIA ...
CLIA stands for Clinical Laboratory Improvement Amendments. The CLIA of 1988 established certification requirements and more stringent quality standards for laboratory testing of human specimens.
Nursing homes will be required to have Clinical Laboratory Improvement Amendments (CLIA) waivers to perform COVID-19 point-of-care tests. As a result, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services is ...
The onset of COVID-19 proved to be a real-time stress test of America’s clinical testing system. The experience exposed several flaws in the system that policymakers should address, specifically, ...
In November 1999, the Institute of Medicine (IOM) published a pro.found article entitled "To Err Is Human: Building a Safer Health System." The very first line of the publication reads, "Health care ...
The undertaking of research in human participants often includes development of clinical laboratory test results associated with an individual research participant. Depending in part on the specified ...
SAN DIEGO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sapient, a biomarker discovery organization providing bespoke services for metabolomics and lipidomics data generation and analysis, announced that its high complexity CLIA ...