US · guidance
CMS SOM App. C, Tag D6134
§493.1453 Condition: Laboratories performing high complexity testing;
clinical consultant.
The laboratory must have a clinical consultant who meets the requirements of
§493.1455 of this subpart and provides clinical consultation in accordance with
§493.1457 of this subpart.
Interpretive Guidelines §493.1453
The Condition of clinical consultant is not met when the clinical consultant:
• Position is not filled;
• Is not qualified; or
• Does not fulfill the clinical consultant responsibilities.
History
Rev. 233; Issued: 09-12-25; Effective: 09-12-25; Implementation: 09-12-25
Provenance
- Source
- cms.gov
- Retrieved
- 2026-07-22
- Edition
- som-2026-07-22
- Content hash
d00bc59410bcef57b36cd72a9132bc304049bb3a74094391bcb5b5cd360d21a6
The link goes to the issuing authority’s own document — the one we read to produce this record. Where a source publishes whole titles rather than sections, your browser may need a moment to jump to the provision.
Unofficial copy of government-published law, reproduced from official sources with full provenance. Not an official publication; verify against official sources before relying on it in a filing. Records in the 'guidance' corpus, and only that corpus, are sub-regulatory (interpretive guidelines, survey procedures) and are not binding law. Validity bounds follow each jurisdiction's declared temporalBasis.