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On April 29, 2024, the Office of the Federal Register placed on display the Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) final rule on the regulation of laboratory developed tests (LDTs). Set to be officially published on May 6, this...more
On April 29, 2024, after years of false starts trying to expand oversight of laboratory developed tests (“LDTs”) through administrative and legislative actions, FDA announced the much-anticipated—and highly...more
On October 3, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) issued a proposed rule regarding the regulation of in vitro diagnostic products (IVDs). In this proposed rule, the FDA announced its intent to amend its regulations to...more
On August 19, 2020, the Trump administration made a major announcement that marks the latest development in the ever-evolving saga of the Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) oversight of laboratory-developed tests (LDTs)....more
What happened? On August 19, 2020, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (“HHS”) issued a single paragraph statement rescinding U.S. Food and Drug Administration (“FDA”) guidance documents concerning premarket...more
Laboratory Developed Tests and Their Regulation - Laboratory developed tests (LDTs) are in vitro diagnostic tests (IVDs) that are designed, developed, manufactured, and performed within a single laboratory. Although the...more
In mid-March, the US Food and Drug Administration announced via press release an “unprecedented policy” to increase testing capacity for COVID-19 in the United States. As part of its Policy for Diagnostic Tests for...more
U.S. Senator Rand Paul introduced legislation that would place laboratory developed testing procedures within the Clinical Laboratory Improvement Amendments (CLIA) process and assess the availability and utilization of...more