CMS has issued a final rule that gives the agency greater discretion in enforcing the Clinical Laboratory Improvement Amendments, according to the Taking Essential Steps for Testing Act of 2012. Under ...

Leadership at the FDA and the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services issued a joint statement to reiterate plans to increase the federal oversight of lab-developed tests, commonly known as LDTs.

CMS has announced the addition of four codes with modifiers that are subject to Clinical Laboratory Improvement Amendments (CLIA) edits. The HCPCS codes listed below were new in 2011, are subject to ...

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, ...

NORTHFIELD, Ill.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The College of American Pathologists (CAP) earned reapproval from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) as an accreditation organization for clinical ...

"We at the Association for Diagnostics & Laboratory Medicine (ADLM, formerly AACC) were surprised to see a statement from Drs. Jeff Shuren and Dora Hughes from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid ...