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Reject the proposal to roll back important Medicaid coverage for biomarker testing.  Two years ago the state legislature passed, and Governor Hochul enacted, a historic law that enabled patients across the state to access critical biomarker testing.  Treatments based on biomarker testing can improve health outcomes, increase quality of life, reduce health disparities and ...

Biomarker testing helps connect patients with the right treatment at the right time. ACS CAN and partners are working together to make sure more New Hampshire residents can benefit from this important testing.   What is Biomarker Testing? In cancer care, biomarkers are often used to help determine the best treatment for a patient . A “ biomarker ” is a sign of ...

PROVIDENCE –Today, the Rhode Island Senate passed legislation that would ensure biomarker testing is covered by more insurance plans, including Medicaid, when patients need it. Dubbed ‘the right treatment, to the right patient, at the right time,’ precision medicine has played a critical role in improving cancer outcomes – biomarker testing being one of the ways we can achieve these outcomes by allowing doctors to understand and target unique markers in a patient’s ...

ATLANTA, GA – April 4, 2022 – As of late Friday evening, the House and Senate respectively passed a resolution recognizing the benefits of biomarker testing , marking a key step in accessing precision medicine treatments, and increasingly important in the treatment of cancer and other ... with a 31% reduction in mortality for certain lung cancer patients and similar benefits for other cancers.   “Precision medicine and biomarker testing can lead to improved patient survival and quality of life,” said House sponsor Rep. Sharon Cooper (R). “That’s why we must ...