Coming Together On CLIA Waivers? Industry Hopes To Recruit Patients, Providers To Push Reform
This article was originally published in The Gray Sheet
Executive Summary
Diagnostic firms formed the Coalition for CLIA Waiver Reform last month with the goal of enlisting patients, labs and physicians in the fight to turn back what they say are unreasonable FDA standards for a test to gain access to the broader market of “waived” labs.
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