Transcription of CLIA & Your Laboratory
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ACP 2014 CLIA & Your Laboratory A Guide for Physicians and Their Staff November 2014 ACP 2014 2 Introduction The American College of Physicians (ACP) welcomes your interest in this guide to the Clinical Laboratory Improvement Amendments of 1988 (CLIA 88). We hope that you will find it helpful in answering many of your questions regarding regulations for clinical Laboratory testing. These CLIA regulations are far-reaching, and now regulate physician-office Laboratory (POL) testing on a national scale. ACP originally published this guide in 1988. It has been revised periodically to reflect the changes made to the regulations as a result of its implementation and ongoing modifications to CLIA.
’88,” describes proficiency testing (PT) and the standards that physicians owning non-waived laboratories must meet to comply with the CLIA PT requirement. The sixth chapter, “Meeting the Quality Systems Standards,” details the required quality control (QC) and quality assurance (QA) standards with
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