CLIA '88 Exam Questions With Verified Answers.

CLIA '88 Exam Questions With Verified Answers. Clinical Laboratory Improvement Amendment of 1988 - answer✔✔CLIA'88 CLIA'67 - answer✔✔This established Medicare and Medicaid programs Pap Mills - answer✔✔Women dying from cervical cancer because cytotechnologists were paid per slide to freelance read patient pap smears at home; misdiagnosed cancer Sink testing - answer✔✔The tester dishone stly makes up test results and throws samples away in order to save time or sabotage medical care. College of American Pathologists - answer✔✔Accredits hospital and reference labs CLIA'67 vs CLIA'88 - answer✔✔Doctor office labs under CLIA'67 were not regul ated at all, under CLIA'88 they are now regulated Waived tests - answer✔✔Most basic tests, some sold in drug stores; low complexity (e.g. keto test strips, urine pregnancy tests) Moderate complexity tests - answer✔✔Majority of test performed in hospital la bs; at minimum person performing test has to be MLT High complexity tests - answer✔✔Multistep tests, rarely performed other than hospital or reference labs Provider Performed Microscopy Procedures (PPMP) - answer✔✔Applied to moderate tests where personnel use for these tests are: Physicians (MD), residents, Doctor of Osteopathic medicine, dentists, nurse practitioners, PA's, midwives, and podiatrists Certificate of waiver - answer✔✔Issued to labs that performs only waived tests Certificate of provider perfo rmed microscopy - answer✔✔Issued to a lab where a physician, nurse practitioner, PA or dentist performs PPMP procedures. Also allows for waived tests Certificate of registration - answer✔✔Issued to a lab to enable it to perform moderate or high complexity testing before it get surveyed Certificate of Compliance - answer✔✔Issued to labs after an inspection that finds the lab to be in compliance