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Lawmakers Seek Input On Dx Regs, With Lab-Developed Tests In Focus

 
• By Sue Darcey

The House Energy and Commerce Committee is seeking feedback on initiatives Congress should enact in 2015 regarding regulation of diagnostics, and in particular in response to FDA's plan to regulate laboratory developed tests.

The House Energy and Commerce Committee is seeking stakeholder input on the regulation of diagnostics, with a particular focus on laboratory-developed tests, raising prospects that the issue could be addressed in draft health-care legislation expected out of the committee earlier next year.

The committee's request-for-input white paper

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