{"id":50409,"date":"2020-07-06T00:22:37","date_gmt":"2020-07-06T00:22:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nationaldrugscreening.com\/?post_type=faqs&#038;p=50409"},"modified":"2020-12-02T11:51:47","modified_gmt":"2020-12-02T16:51:47","slug":"what-is-a-consortia-third-party-administrator-c-tpa","status":"publish","type":"faqs","link":"https:\/\/www.nationaldrugscreening.com\/faqs\/other\/what-is-a-consortia-third-party-administrator-c-tpa\/","title":{"rendered":"What is a Consortia\/Third Party Administrator C\/TPA"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The term Consortia\/Third Party Administrator was coined by DOT with the rewrite of 49 CFR Part 40 back in 2001.&nbsp; C\/TPA\u2019s providing DOT drug &amp; alcohol testing services should be intimately familiar with program 49 CFR Part 40, read it over and read it over again.&nbsp; Refer back to this regulation often to insure your answering questions properly and setting up your operations to be in compliance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In 49 CFR Part 40 the C\/TPA is defined as:&nbsp;&nbsp;<em>A service agent that provides or coordinates the provision of a variety of drug and alcohol testing services to employers. &nbsp;C\/TPAs typically perform administrative tasks concerning the operation of the employers&#8217; drug and alcohol testing programs. &nbsp;This term includes, but is not limited to, groups of employers who join together to administer, as a single entity, the DOT drug and alcohol testing programs of its members.<\/em>&nbsp;&nbsp;<br><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"template":"","acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationaldrugscreening.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/faqs\/50409"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationaldrugscreening.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/faqs"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationaldrugscreening.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/faqs"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationaldrugscreening.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationaldrugscreening.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/faqs\/50409\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationaldrugscreening.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50409"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}