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Healthcare Stakeholders Ask CMS Not to Limit Access to NGS Hereditary Cancer Risk Tests

Feb 01, 2019
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NEW YORK (GenomeWeb) – A group of 60 diverse healthcare companies and organizations has written to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, requesting the agency change its decision to restrict coverage of next-generation sequencing-based testing for hereditary cancer risk.

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