CMS Proposes Updates to CLIA Proficiency-Testing Regulations

The Clinical Laboratory Improvement Amendments of 1988 and their associated regulations require laboratories performing moderate- or high-complexity testing to enroll in an approved proficiency-testing (PT) program “for each specialty, subspecialty, and analyte or test for which the laboratory is certified under CLIA.” These regulations were most-recently amended in 2012, and as of January 2017 there [...] Read More