[Histonet] RE: CLIA Compliance Regulations for histology staff coverage

[Thurby, Christina]

Hi Akemi,
Please refer to this article in Advance magazine from 2010.  The second page has the CLIA regulations you are looking for.

Features:
The Grossing Histotechnologist in Surgical Pathology
Part 1 of this 2-part article explores regulatory requirements.
By Izak B. Dimenstein, MD, PhD, HT(ASCP)

Posted on: May 6, 2010

http://laboratory-manager.advanceweb.com/features/article-2/the-grossing-histotechnologist-in-surgical-pathology.aspx


Christina Thurby
Bristol Myers Squibb
812-307-2093



>   5. Re: CLIA Compliance Regulations for histology staff      coverage
>      (Jennifer MacDonald)
>From:   Akemi Allison <akemiat3377 <@t> yahoo.com>
>To:     Histonet <Histonet <@t> lists.utsouthwestern.edu>
>Date:   07/18/2013 08:34 AM
>Subject:        [Histonet] CLIA Compliance Regulations for histology
>staff
>coverage
>Sent by:        histonet-bounces <@t> lists.utsouthwestern.edu
>
>
>
>Good morning to all in Histoland!
>
>Hopefully, one of you can help me with a question which was proposed to
>me
>by a fellow histologist working in a very small GI histology lab.
>
>Here is what information she gave me:  She is training a histology
>assistant in house to do all the histology technical responsibilities at
>the request of the GI doctors.  She said her OJT assistant is doing a
>great job technically, but she has not yet registered in school to
>finish
>her  AA Degree so she can sit for the HT exam.  She has been working
>under
>her instruction for 1 year.  Her lab is California State and CLIA
>licensed.
>
>The GI doctors want the assistant to cover for her while she is on
>vacation.  The pathologist who is the medical director does  not think
>that CLIA Regulations allows this and wants the specimens sent out
>during
>her absence.  She needs the CLIA Regulations stating what the guidelines
>are so her lab is complying to regulations.  She didn???t want to call
>CLIA
>because it would send a RED FLAG up.  I also didn???t want to call them
>because they may ask me what the name of the lab was that was proposing
>this question.
>
>I told her that this was most likely illegal, but she needs it in black
>and white.  Do any of you have that information or a web link to go to
>at
>your finger tips? She needs the regulations by next week.
>
>Thank you in advance for your help,
>Akemi
>
>Akemi Allison-Tacha, BS, HT/HTL (ASCP)
>Pathology Manager
>Monterey Bay GI Consultants
>23 Upper Ragsdale Drive, Suite 200
>Monterey, CA 93940
>(381) 375-3577  X117
>Email: aallison <@t> montereygi.com
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