Medicare lab spending totaled $8.4 billion in 2024, up 5 percent year over year, with $3.6 billion of that spent on genetic testing, an increase of 20 percent over 2023.

After a young woman develops mobility and speech issues, her grandmother seeks help from her genetic counselor, who flags a ...

A Jan. 28 report on Medicare spending on lab tests indicated that spending on many types of tests flattened between 2022 and 2024, but spending on genetic tests rose 20% between 2023 and 2024 to $3.6 ...

Next-generation solution gives health plans greater insight and control into genetic lab test spending. TAMPA, Fla., Dec. 12, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Avalon Healthcare Solutions, the world's first Lab ...

It wasn’t all that long ago that we cracked the human genome, and in just a few short years we became used to direct-to-consumer genetic sequencing companies, like Ancestry.com and 23&Me, which could ...

Most consumers expect that five years from now the use of testing will have increased. However, the coding system used across the country to monitor medical tests offers few codes to describe genetic ...

DENVER, Colo. (KFSN) -- You've probably heard of companies like ancestry.com or 23-and-me that offer at-home genetic testing. They are just two of more than 11,000 labs in the u-s that offer this. The ...

Genetic testing for ATTR can detect transthyretin mutations and offer crucial information about risk, monitoring, and treatment, if needed. Transthyretin amyloidosis (ATTR) is a genetic condition that ...

Rare diseases are hard to diagnose and often require costly genetic testing and visits to specialists. The testing can be hard to access, especially for people who live in rural areas. Researchers at ...

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