What is CLIA registration and what is its purpose?
What is the meaning of CLIA? The clinical laboratory improvement amendments of 1988 is a federal program governed by CMS- Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. Its main purpose is to create and establish quality standards for clinical laboratory testing to make sure that the test results of all the patients are reliable, timely and accurate. The goal of CLIA is to monitor the patient test results in the hospitals, laboratories, medical physicians and practitioners, and