In the last few years, moderately complex physician office labs (POLs) have undergone a rude awakening, discovering new CLIA (Clinical Laboratory Improvement Amendments of 1988) quality requirements that take significant time and money to perform. The net result is that smaller POLs are giving up non-waived testing.

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July/August 2008 - Table of Contents

GCR July/August 2008 (full PDF issue)

Lab Groups Pin Hopes on New Medicare Bill

CLIA Quality Requirements: An Emerging Barrier for Non-Waived POLs

OIG Warns Labs Against Offering ‘Freebies’

Hearing Raises Questions About Order to Stop Testing

It Is 2008: Do You Know Where Your Select Agents Are?

2008 Laboratory Public Service National Leadership Award

Lab Institute 2008 Alert!

News in Brief (0807)