tci Medicare Compliance & Reimbursement - 2003 Issue 41

Labs: CLIA SURVEYORS AWAIT GREEN LIGHT FROM FEDS

Find out how surveyors intend to handle deficiencies in the meantime.  CLIA inspectors may be stuck in their starting gates for now, but not for much longer. That's the message surveyors have for clinical laboratories anticipating inspection under the new requirements of the Clinical Laboratory Improvement Amendments. Oct. 1 was supposed to mark the end of the phase-in period and the start of the first survey cycle for labs that must come into compliance with the final CLIA regulations. However, survey agencies "haven't gotten the nod yet" from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services to use new...

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