(except research) performed on humans in the United States through the Clinical Laboratory Improvement Amendments (CLIA), the objective of which is to ensure quality laboratory testing. See 42 U.S.C. § 263a, and its implementing regulations. All clinical laboratories must be certified to receive Medicare or Medicaid payments. Wade Pediatrics v. Dep’t of Health and Human Servs., 567 F.3d 1202, 1203 (10th Cir.2009). 6 . It is certainly arguable that plaintiffs have failed to state a claim for defamation for the reason that they have alleged only that “false statements” were made by UMMC employees during a two-day hearing but do not identify which employees made the allegedly defamatory statements or what those statements were. See Chalk v. Bertholf, 980 So.2d 290, 299 (Miss.Ct.App.2007) (<HOLDING>). The court need not dwell on that possibility,
holding that buckinghams failure to raise any factual disputes regarding the substance of the unrecorded statement at the omnibus hearing is fatal to his claimed scales violation and no improper contact occurred between the police and buckingham holding the failure of defendants to claim any disruption in workplace resulting from speech is fatal to his claim of qualified immunity recognizing that evidence regarding the high price the defendant had paid for the substance in question was relevant to show the substance was cocaine holding that a plaintiffs failure to invoke  1983 is fatal to the claim because the constitutional provision that was allegedly violated does not itself create a means for recovery for a violation of that provision holding that failure to provide any substance regarding the allegedly slanderous words in the complaint against the appellees was fatal to the appellants claim