CMS continues to exercise pathologists and other laboratory staff enforcement discretion

During the Public Health Emergency (PHE), the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services extended enforcement discretion under CLIA to allow pathologists and other laboratory staff to review laboratory data, slides, and digital images in other locations, including their homes, without obtaining a CLIA certificate. 

CMS will continue to exercise this enforcement discretion under QSO-20-21-CLIA through the end of the current PHE. 

At the end of the current PHE, CMS will continue to exercise enforcement discretion for pathologists to examine digital images and laboratory data at remote locations.  

For more information regarding flexibilities extended during the PHE