CMS Proposes Improvements To Cervical Cancer Proficiency Testing Program

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) announced proposals to further improve the regulations that are in place to assure the competency of those conducting the most common screening test for cervical cancer, the Papanicolaou (Pap) test. The proposed rule would update the current regulatory provisions that were promulgated under certain provisions of the Public Health Service Act.

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Filed under: Cancer on January 16th, 2009