CMS maintains oversight for compliance with the Medicare health and safety standards and laboratories, acute and continuing care providers.

Information on health and safety standards that providers and suppliers of health care services must meet in order to participate in the Medicare and Medicaid programs.

Information for CMS Central and Locations, State Survey Agencies, their state, tribal, regional, and local emergency management partners, and health care providers, for developing effective and robust emergency plans and responses.

CMS regulates all laboratory testing (except research) performed on humans in the U.S. through the Clinical Laboratory Improvement Amendments (CLIA).