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Preserve Medicaid Patient Access To Biomarker Testing

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 ...

Preserve Medicaid patients’ access to biomarker testing

The governor’s budget proposes rolling back important Medicaid coverage for biomarker testing – which is key to matching some patients with the most effective treatment for cancer and other diseases. Please send a message to your lawmakers today and ask them to save this important coverage. 0 Preserve Medicaid patients’ access to biomarker testing ...

EXPAND ACCESS TO BIOMARKER TESTING IN GEORGIA

EXPAND ACCESS TO BIOMARKER TESTING IN GEORGIA ...

Expand Access to Biomarker Testing in New Jersey

Welcome! 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 Jersey 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 ...

Expand Access to Biomarker Testing in North Carolina

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

Expand Access to Biomarker Testing in New Hampshire

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 ...

Biomarker Testing: A Game Changer in Lung Cancer Care

... of all cancer deaths. Unfortunately, many lung cancers are not diagnosed until they are at an advanced stage, when symptoms typically appear.  Biomarker testing  has been transformative in lung cancer treatment, allowing doctors to connect patients to the most effective treatment for their patients. What is biomarker testing? In cancer care, biomarkers are often used to help determine the best treatment for a patient. A “biomarker” is a ...

Increasing Access to Biomarker Testing - SB496 (Limón)

Summary: SB 496 (Limón) will increase access to biomarker testing, ensuring patients receive the right treatment at the right time. Need for bill: Precision medicine is dramatically improving cancer outcomes by using information about a person’s own genes or proteins (biomarkers) to prevent, diagnose, or treat disease. Advances in biomarker testing and cancer treatments now allow for targeted cancer therapies that can improve patient survival and quality of life.  Testing ...

Biomarker Testing Is The Key To Precision Medicine

           Precision medicine is changing the way we treat cancer and biomarker testing is the key to opening the door to the types of personalized cancer treatments that can improve survival rates and quality of life. A.1673 and S.1196  requires all state-regulated insurance plans, including Medicaid, to cover biomarker testing when medically appropriate. Read other patients who have benefited from biomarker testing in the New York Biomarker Testing ...

NJ Senate Commerce Committee Advances Biomarker Testing Bill

Earlier today, Senate Bill 3098 was unanimously voted out of the Senate Commerce Committee. This legislation, which aims to ensure that biomarker testing is covered by Medicaid and all other state-regulated insurance plans when patients need it, now advances to the Senate Budget & ... & Insurance Committee approved identical legislation (Assembly Bill 4163), which now awaits a hearing in the Assembly Appropriations Committee. Biomarker testing is a precision medicine tool that utilizes information from patients’ cells to determine the right treatment at the right time ...

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