The article reports on the continuation in the adoption of the educational approach on the enforcement of the clinical laboratory improvement advisory (CLIA) cytology proficiency testing requirements in the U.S. Judy Yost, a top CLIA official, said that the approach intends that laboratories would ...
The article reports on the Clinical Laboratory Improvement Advisory Committee's (CLIAC) endorsement of major revisions to the CLIA cytology proficiency testing requirements. The CLIAC has recommended the expansion of the testing interval from once each year to once every three years. The committee ...
A successful quality assurance program is one of the many requirements enforced to ensure the lab is providing the best possible results. Part of quality assurance parameters comprises of cyto-histological correlations and documentation of continuing education by proficiency through independent study. In ...
Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) in altering requirements for Pap smear proficiency testing (PT) in the U.S. It states that the changes will affect 2,142 cytology laboratories and 12,831 individuals who screen 65 million gynecologic cytology preparations in the country. It cites...
Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) to rewrite regulatory requirements for screening Pap smears on January 16, 2009. It states that CMS had invited comments on changes to the proficiency testing (PT) program for gynecology cytology. The revision include prolonging the testing interval,...
Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) to draw back its proposed revisions on the requirements for proficiency testing for pathologists and cytotechnologists who execute Pap testing. CAP submitted a letter to CMS stating its concern about the rulemaking's compliance with the Regulatory ...
Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) for revising requirements for the gynecologic cytology proficiency testing (PT) under the Clinical Laboratory Improvement Amendments (CLIA). It mentions the changes to be made in the PT including encouraging laboratories to participate in educational ...
The CAP president Mary Kass said that this decision does not alter their fundamental position that the existing physician training requirements should be suspended and reevaluated in the context of modern science and practice.EBSCO_bspNational Intelligence Report...
government revise proficiency testing requirements for gynecologic cytology that are spelled out in the 1992 the Clinical Laboratory Improvement Amendments (CLIA) rules. When the U.S. Congress enacted CLIA in 1988, one of the main aims was to crack down on widely publicized pap mills and assure ...
With approval of MIME's program, CMS has said that this year it will begin to enforce the cytology PT requirements established under CLIA. That means MIME is the only game in town in 2005 for anyone who reads pap smears in the U.S....