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Live Blood Cell Analysis Under the Clinical Laboratory Improvement Act
Program Operations - General
September 23, 2015
Live Blood Cell Analysis is a test which is used for the purpose of providing information for the diagnosis, prevention, or treatment of any disease or impairment of, or assessment of the health of human beings. The Health Care Financing Administration (now the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services) Office of General Counsel determined in August, 1997, that Live Blood Cell Analysis was subject to all Clinical Laboratory Improvement Act requirements.