AHA Publishes Summary Of New COVID-19 Reporting Guidance
Staff Contact: Terrie Bauer
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services recently issued new surveyor guidance for COVID-19 laboratory test result reporting for Clinical Laboratory Improvement Amendments-certified laboratories. Laboratories are expected to be in compliance with the new requirements no later than Wednesday, Sept. 23. After that date, laboratories not in compliance will be subject to civil monetary penalties. CMS also released new enforcement regulations for long-term care facility COVID-19 reporting requirements. The American Hospital Association published a Special Bulletin with additional information.
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NIH Awards Contracts For COVID-19 Rapid Point-Of-Care Tests
Staff Contact: Terrie Bauer
As part of its Rapid Acceleration of Diagnostics initiative, the National Institutes of Health awarded $129.3 million in contracts to nine companies for technologies that include portable point-of-care tests for immediate results and high-throughput laboratories that can return results within 24 hours. Among the tests are some that use RT-PCR to give results in 15 minutes and strips that can be read without specialized equipment, similar to pregnancy tests. In addition, NIH said it is adding five additional laboratories to expand the network of coverage and potentially manage tens of thousands of additional tests daily.
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