Clinical Laboratory Improvement Amendments definition

Clinical Laboratory Improvement Amendments. (CLIA) means the federal Health Care Financing Administration program that limits reimbursement for laboratory services based on the equipment and capability of the physician or laboratory to provide an appropriate, competent level of laboratory service.

Clinical Laboratory Improvement Amendments means the federal clinical laboratory improvement amendments of 1988, as amended, 42 USC 263a and 42 CFR Part 493.

Clinical Laboratory Improvement Amendments or "CLIA" means federal regulations (Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, United States Department of Health and Human Services) (Laboratory Requirements; 42 CFR 493) (10/1/13) providing standards applicable to all facilities or sites in the United States that test human specimens for health assessment or to diagnose, prevent or treat disease.

Examples of Clinical Laboratory Improvement Amendments in a sentence

• Clinical Laboratory Improvement Amendments (CLIA)—a Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) program which regulates all human performed laboratory testing in the United States to ensure quality laboratory testing.

• CLIA RegulationsForwardHealth complies with the following federal regulations as initially published and subsequently updated: ● Public Health Service Clinical Laboratory Improvement Amendments of 1988.● Title 42 CFR Part 493, Laboratory Requirements.

• The Contractor shall ensure that all laboratory-testing sites providing services under the Contract have either a Clinical Laboratory Improvement Amendments (CLIA) Certificate of Waiver or a Certificate of Registration along with a CLIA registration number.

• An RHC can also apply for enrollment as a family planning agency.All providers of laboratory services must comply with the rules and regulations of the Clinical Laboratory Improvement Amendments (CLIA).

• These laboratory- developed tests (LDTs) are regulated by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid (CMS) as high- complexity tests under the Clinical Laboratory Improvement Amendments of 1988 (CLIA ’88).

• A laboratory shall refer specimens for testing only to a laboratory possessing a valid Clinical Laboratory Improvement Amendments (CLIA) certificate authorizing the performance of testing in the specialty or subspecialty of service for the level of complexity in which the referred test is categorized.

• The MCO must adhere to the provisions of the Clinical Laboratory Improvement Amendments of 1988 (CLIA) Public Law 100-578.

• Laboratory services must meet all applicable requirements of the Clinical Laboratory Improvement Amendments of 1988 (CLIA), as set forth at 42 CFR part 493.

• The Company operates a laboratory certified under the Clinical Laboratory Improvement Amendments ("CLIA") providing a host of preconception and prenatal genetic testing services.

• Those specified for laboratory services in the Clinical Laboratory Improvement Amendments (CLIA).