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Unit 2 Assignment Healthcare Compliance

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Marsha McMillen
Unit 2 Assignment Healthcare Compliance

I would think that the passage of CLIA would be very important to patients. CLIA is just one guarantee that their labs are accurate and reliable. “Congress passed CLIA in 1988 to establish quality standards for all non-research laboratory testing.” Knowing that CLIAs regulation have ten different standards would and should be important to the patient. These standard are guarantees that when the patient has test done in the doctor’s office that they will be done correctly and efficiently. Those ten standards are as follows. 1. Having a system in place for monitoring and evaluating the procedures, 2. Quality control, 3. Proficiency testing, 4. A comparison of test results, 5. Involves
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