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Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS, formerly HCFA)
Federal Register - search for rules and regulations here.
- Analyte Specific Reagents - Final Rule (PDF). Requires free Acrobat Reader software.
HIPAA Privacy Regulation Guidance - guidance on the final HIPAA regulations issued by HHS on 7/6/2001; full compliance by health care organizations, including labs, is required by 7/14/2003.
MSDS Database at Vermont SIRI
OSHA Information
Riverbend Government Benefits Administrator - this is the Medicare intermediary to whom independent labs must publish their rates and submit the annual cost report.
Thomas: Legislative information (Library of Congress)

More Information on the Analyte Specific Reagent Rule:

ASR Fact Sheet from the College of American Pathologists (CAP)
Questions & Answers from the College of American Pathologists (CAP)
"ASR: FDA Issues Final Rule" - an article by Jeffrey N Gibbs published in IVD Magazine, January 1998

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