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Certificate and Regulatory Multiple Site Exceptions under the Clinical Laboratory Improvement Amendments of 1988 (CLIA)
Guidance for: This memo provides clarification of Federal guidance related to physician delegation of certain tasks in SNFs and NFs to non-physician practitioners (NPPs; formerly “physician extenders”)
Issued by: Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS)
Issue Date: December 02, 2011
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