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Biotech / Medical : Complete Genomics GNOM DNA analysis for human genome -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: idos who wrote (8)	9/16/2011 10:51:59 PM
From: Maurice Winn	1 Recommendation Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 45

Thanks for the information: < ILMN has it's own service network and is competing on price for large projects and BGI is another player that cannot be ignored. > I'm new to this so don't understand much. I'll ask Bing what that is: <Potential is there but not likely without having a CLIA certification > From the website following, it looks as though CLIA is unnecessary if GNOM doesn't try to get payments from Medicare or Medicaid. <If you take a look at GNOM's costumers list you won't find 'people' there, rather the research community - big academic centers, institutions, and agencies > cms.gov < The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) regulates all laboratory testing (except research) performed on humans in the U.S. through the Clinical Laboratory Improvement Amendments (CLIA). In total, CLIA covers approximately 225,000 laboratory entities. The Division of Laboratory Services, within the Survey and Certification Group, under the Center for Medicaid and State Operations (CMSO) has the responsibility for implementing the CLIA Program. The objective of the CLIA program is to ensure quality laboratory testing. Although all clinical laboratories must be properly certified to receive Medicare or Medicaid payments, CLIA has no direct Medicare or Medicaid program responsibilities.> But certification is cheap enough, so might as well have it: cms.gov GNOM does not do testing on people. They test DNA samples, which presumably is like 23andMe do from saliva. <Customers send a plate of DNA samples> Maybe "testing on people" includes anything related to people [rather than plants and animals]. Maybe looking at saliva is considered to be "testing on people". Mqurice