NEW YORK – The US Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services has finalized the draft national coverage decision memo it issued last October, describing criteria for the coverage of blood-based colorectal cancer screening tests, but denying coverage for Epigenomics' Epi ProColon assay.
Apart from Epigenomics, the memo stands to impact a number of companies developing genomic and epigenomic blood tests for colorectal cancer including Guardant Health, Freenome, Exact Sciences, and others.