June 13, 2022 – CLIA ’88 has been in place now since 1992 and is still probably one of the most misunderstood obstacles to a creating and managing a successful moderate complexity physician office lab. While manufacturers and distributors have deployed an increasingly impressive range of specialist sales personnel and a broad range of consultative resources to help the distributor account manager, customer concerns and reluctance continue to provide a daily struggle for all of us involved in the physician office laboratory market. In June’s Physician Office Lab column article, Jim Poggi reviews some of the laboratory license statistics and takes a fresh look at the array of resources available to help you and your customers become comfortable with compliance with CLIA, and to manage an outstanding, profitable, and productive physician office laboratory.