CMS Quality & Safety Special Alert Memo: Third-Party Solicitations Resembling Official CLIA Communications

Published: 10/07/2026

Sources:
  • Clinical Laboratory Improvement Amendments (CLIA),
  • Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services
Relevant To:
  • Ambulatory Surgical Centers,
  • Rural Emergency Hospitals,
  • Urgent Care,
  • Dialysis Facilities,
  • Medical Office,
  • Critical Access Hospitals,
  • Home Health,
  • Hospitals,
  • Ambulatory Care,
  • Office-Based Surgery,
  • Inpatient Rehabilitation Facility,
  • Clinical Lab,
  • Hospice,
  • Rural Health Clinics

CMS is aware that CLIA-certified laboratories in several states, (including Iowa, Minnesota and Texas) have received solicitation documents from a third-party entity that are styled as bills or invoices and may be mistaken for official CLIA communications.

This document is not issued by CMS and does not represent an official CLIA fee or government notice. Official CLIA communications come only from CMS or your State Survey Agency.

CLIA-certified laboratories are encouraged to carefully rev…

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