Medicare Program; Announcement of the Re-Approval of the Joint Commission as an Accreditation Organization Under the Clinical Laboratory Improvement Amendments of 1988; Correction

Document Headings Document headings vary by document type but may contain the following: the agency or agencies that issued and signed a document the number of the CFR title and the number of each part the document amends, proposes to amend, or is directly related to the agency docket number / agency internal file number the RIN which identifies each regulatory action listed in the Unified Agenda of Federal Regulatory and Deregulatory Actions See the Document Drafting Handbook for more details. Department of Health and Human Services Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services [CMS-3450-CN] AGENCY: Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). ACTION: Notice; correction. SUMMARY: This document corrects technical errors that appeared in the notice published in the May 24, 2024, Federal Register titled “Medicare Program; Announcement of the Reapproval of the Joint Commission as an Accreditation Organization Under the Clinical Laboratory Improvement Amendments of 1998”. DATES: Effective date: This correction notice is effective November 19, 2025. Applicability date: The corrections in this notice are applicable to the re-approval of the Joint Commission as an Accreditation Organization Under the Clinical Laboratory Improvement Amendments (CLIA) of 1988 from May 24, 2024 through May 24, 2030. FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Raymond Castillo, (312) 886-3595. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: I. Background In FR Doc. 2024-11421 of May 24, 2024 ( 89 FR 45900 through 45901 ), there were technical errors that are identified and corrected in this correcting document. II. Summary of Errors On page 45900, in the SUMMARY section, we inadvertently omitted several entries from the list of specialties and subspecialties under the Clinical Laboratory Improvement Amendments (CLIA) of 1988. We also made inadvertent technical errors in several bulleted paragraphs. III. Correction of Errors In FR Doc. 2024-11421 of May 24, 2024…