Carol wrote: "Will the new CAP guidelines related to "processing" and "grossing" affect CLIA regulations? "
What CAP requires does not "affect CLIA regulations;" it is the other way around. It may be that CAP is simply fine tuning its requirements to better reflect the CLIA regulations. CAP is a deemed agent by CMS (Centers for Medicare and Medicaid) the Federal agency that implements the CLIA rules. The Joint Commission is another deemed agent. As such they apply and are chosen to enforce the CLIA rules. As deemed agents CAP and JC must enforce the rules, but have some leeway in how they go about it and may emphasize different aspects.+ Certainly CMS has to approve how CAP/JC does that. But what CAP does will not necessarily affect how JC goes about the same task. My experience with all three (CAP, JC and federal CLIA inspections) are that CAP emphasizes the technical aspects and secondarily the QA aspects while JC and CLIA emphasize the QA aspects, especially over the entire organization (for instance JC does "tracers" in which they pull all the information about a given patient and follow every path to the ultimate QA documents of every test on that patient - down to who stained the slides and are their competency documents in order). Tim Morken Supervisor, Histology / IPOX UCSF Medical Center San Francisco, CA -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of DELIA GARCIA Sent: Tuesday, April 27, 2010 8:34 AM To: [email protected]; CarolBarone Subject: Re: [Histonet] ?New CAP guidelines affect CLIA '88 I too am curious about this issue. Any info would be oh so greatly appreciated. Thanks --- On Tue, 4/27/10, Barone, Carol <[email protected]> wrote: From: Barone, Carol <[email protected]> Subject: [Histonet] ?New CAP guidelines affect CLIA '88 To: [email protected] Date: Tuesday, April 27, 2010, 8:20 AM Histonetters familiar with CAP and CLIA compliance issue...I am requesting a clarification: Will the new CAP guidelines related to "processing" and "grossing" affect CLIA regulations? I understand they will certainly affect CAP labs....but do they impact CLIA labs as well? Is there any grandfathering for experienced technicians who have been doing this for years (I have 2 techs who "gross" muscle only... on tissue for enzyme histochemistry - prior to snap-freezing)......? How does this, if it does, impact technicians recognized under CLIA as "individuals who perform high complexity testing..." I know there will be change for CAP...will CLIA be following? _______________________________________________ Histonet mailing list [email protected] http://lists.utsouthwestern.edu/mailman/listinfo/histonet _______________________________________________ Histonet mailing list [email protected] http://lists.utsouthwestern.edu/mailman/listinfo/histonet _______________________________________________ Histonet mailing list [email protected] http://lists.utsouthwestern.edu/mailman/listinfo/histonet
