CEO SUMMARY: CMS ordered Gamma Healthcare to close its two labs, revoked the owners’ CLIA licenses, prohibited them from operating a lab for two years, and ordered payment of more than $55,000 in civil penalties. The two lab facilities had been running COVID-19 and other tests for about 2,500 nursing homes in 11 states. This […]
CMS Shuts Missouri Lab Due to ‘Immediate Jeopardy’
Lab company served 2,500 nursing homes in 11 states, but CMS ordered it to cease testing
- By Robert Michel
- > From the Volume XXVIII, No. 9 - July 6, 2021 Issue
- Tags: Blake H. Reeves, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, clia, clinical laboratory improvement amendments, CMS, David L. Smalley PhD, Gamma Healthcare, Jerry Murphy, lab risk & compliance, M. Keith Burson, Medicare Part B, PAMA, Polsinelli, Protecting Access to Medicare Act, Stacy Walz PhD, U.S. District Judge M. Douglas Harpool
