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Podcast: A Health Podyssey
Episode: Kathryn Phillips Wants to Anticipate Payer Cancer Coverage as Screenings Evolve
Description: This episode is sponsored by the Rural Health Research Gateway at the University of North Dakota.Cancer diagnosis has changed radically in the era of precision medicine. New techniques like multi-cancer early-detection screening tests can detect up to 50 types of cancer from a single blood draw.We generally think of early detection, especially of cancer, as an unambiguously good thing. Given that, you might assume and expect that insurers would readily pay for it. But it turns out the considerations regarding insurance coverage for these screening tests are quite complex.<...