WASHINGTON, Dec. 19 -- Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has issued a notice called: Announcement of the Approval of COLA as an Accreditation Organization for the Specialties of Clinical Cytogenetics and Radiobioassay Under the Clinical Laboratory Improvement Amendments of 1988.

The notice was published in the Federal Register on Dec. 19 by Vanessa Garcia, Federal Register Liaison, Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services.

Summary: This notice announces the application of the Commission on Laboratory Accreditation (COLA) for approval as an accreditation organization for clinical laboratories under the Clinical Laboratory Improvement Amendments of 1988 (CLIA) program for the specialties of Clinical Cytogenetics and Radiobioassay. We...