Special report on health care delivery systems. Final regulations implement Clinical Laboratory Improvement...

The primary purpose of CLIA and the Regulations is to strengthen federal oversight of clinical laboratories to ensure that test results are accurate and reliable. The new law and the Regulations create a national unified certification and enforcement system that affects virtually every laboratory in the country. Thus, all laboratories and health care providers with laboratory components that may be affected should carefully review the Regulations and prepare to comply with them well in advance of their September 1, 1992 implementation date.