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2024年11月26日 · Learn how CLIA regulates lab tests and access resources for PPM procedures to ensure compliance.

The Clinical Laboratory Improvement Amendments of 1988 (CLIA) Certificate for Provider-Performed Microscopy (PPM) procedures issued by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) permits a laboratory or testing site to perform a limited list of moderate complexity microscopic tests, as well as any waived tests.

Provider-performed Microscopy Procedures. Q0111 - Wet mounts, including preparations of vaginal, cervical or skin specimens . Q0112 - All potassium hydroxide (KOH) preparations

PPMP is a testing modality that requires the use of a microscope and is performed by a clinical practitioner during a patient encounter. A Certificate of Provider-Performed Microscopy Procedures (PPMP) permits a laboratory to perform a limited list of moderate complexity tests, as well as any waived tests.

Expanded pilot studies by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), formerly the Health Care Financing Administration (HCFA), of laboratories issued a certificate of waiver (COW) and provider performed microscopy procedures (PPMP) laboratories demonstrate that 50% of laboratories performing waived tests do not follow the manufacturer...

2021年11月1日 · Only a provider may perform microscopy procedures under a Provider Performed Microscopy Procedure (PPMP) certificate. Providers include physicians, nurse practitioners, nurse midwives, and physician assistants.