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Competency Assessments Prove To Be a Nagging CLIA Deficiency

CEO SUMMARY: Competency assessment problems rank high among frequently cited deficiencies during CLIA inspections. Representatives from the CAP, COLA, and The Joint Commission explain what areas to…

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CMS: TJC Made ‘Business Decision’ to Not Recognize COLA

Following up on a prior briefing, The Dark Report has learned that the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) does not appear to hav…

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CLIA Lab Accreditors Reveal Most Frequent Deficiencies

CEO SUMMARY: CAP, The Joint Commission, COLA, and A2LA took the stage at the recent Executive War College to detail their respective lists of the 10 most often-cited standards during…

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Alert! Changes to CLIA Accreditation, CLIA Revisions

MEDICAL LABORATORIES HAVE LIVED WITH THE REGULATIONS FOR THE CLINICAL LABORATORY IMPROVEMENTS AMENDMENTS (CLIA) since they were first implemented in 1992. Over the past 30 years there has been no major revision or updating of CLIA regulations. Nor has there been much change in the long-standing statu…

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COLA Re-enters CLIA Accreditation for Pathology

  CEO SUMMARY: COLA again h…

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New Trends Reshaping Healthcare, Lab Testing

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CLIA Lab Inspections Different Because of COVID-19 Pandemic

WITH THE ONSET OF THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC IN MARCH, three of the major organizations deemed to have CLIA status suspended inspections of clinical laboratories for several months. Inspections and assessments of laboratories have restarted, but with significant changes because of the SARS-CoV-2 outbreak….

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