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The Health Care Authority’s mission is: We ensure that New Mexicans attain their highest level of health by providing whole-person, cost-effective, accessible, and high-quality health care and safety-net services.

Clinical Laboratory Improvement Act

The New Mexico Clinical Laboratory Improvement Act (CLIA) program ensures that all laboratory facilities (including physician office laboratories) meet the established health and safety standards for specimen testing.

The mission of the program is to ensure that the highest quality of laboratory testing is performed in New Mexico through education and enforcement of federal regulations. The purpose of CLIA is to set minimum standards for all laboratories to follow and to determine if laboratories are achieving those standards.

Learn More

Please refer to the following documents below for more information on CLIA.

General Information — Clinical Laboratory Improvement Act Historical Information
Special Alerts — Live Blood Cell Analysis Under the Clinical Laboratory Improvement Act
Center’s for Medicare and Medicaid Services — Clinical Laboratory Improvement Amendments