Medicare, Medicaid, and CLIA Programs; Continuance of the Approval of COLA as a CLIA Accreditation Organization

Summary

The U.S. government has announced the continued approval of COLA, a laboratory accreditation organization, to oversee laboratories under the Clinical Laboratory Improvement Amendments of 1988 (CLIA) program, allowing them to avoid routine inspections by state agencies while still being subject to federal validation and complaint investigations.