Texas Administrative Code
Title 26 - HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
Part 1 - HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES COMMISSION
Chapter 558 - LICENSING STANDARDS FOR HOME AND COMMUNITY SUPPORT SERVICES AGENCIES
Subchapter C - MINIMUM STANDARDS FOR ALL HOME AND COMMUNITY SUPPORT SERVICES AGENCIES
Division 4 - PROVISION AND COORDINATION OF TREATMENT SERVICES
Section 558.284 - Laboratory Services

An agency that provides laboratory services must adopt and enforce a written policy to ensure that the agency meets applicable requirements of 42 United States Code (USC) §263a, concerning certification and certificates of waiver of a clinical laboratory (CLIA 1988). The section 42 USC § 263a applies to all agencies with laboratories that examine human specimens to provide information for the diagnosis, prevention, or treatment of any disease or impairment of, or the assessment of the health of, human beings.