Castle Biosciences Uveal Melanoma Prognostic Test Garners Coverage from Multiple Payors

Jul 18, 2017

NEW YORK (GenomeWeb) – Medicare contractor Palmetto GBA has issued a final local coverage determination for Castle Biosciences' DecisionDx-UM, a prognostic test for uveal melanoma.

The LCD extends coverage for the DecisionDx-UM test to assess metastatic risk for newly diagnosed uveal melanoma patients, as well as to guide surveillance and referral to medical oncology.

To read the full story....

...and receive Daily News bulletins.

Already have a 360Dx or GenomeWeb account?
Login Now.

Featured White Papers

The BD Veritor Plus System

Advancing Patient Care and Aiding Diagnosis at the Point of Care

Type 1 Interferon Gene Expression Analysis: Precision Medicine in Lupus

Molecular Tests Provide a Better Alternative to Stool Culture for GI Cases

Mar

21

Featured Webinar

A Long-Read vs. Short-Read Platform Comparison (Part 2): Best NGS Approaches for Human Transcriptome Sequencing

This webinar provides a comparison of next-generation sequencing (NGS) approaches for human transcriptome sequencing, including short-read Illumina sequencing and synthetic long-read sequencing technology.

Mar

26

Featured Webinar

Advancing Agricultural Genomics with Low-Cost NGS Genotyping

This webinar will address the current status and future directions for massively high-throughput genomics for plant and animal breeding and research.

Mar

27

Featured Webinar

How One NGS Core Lab Reduced Sequencing Costs with a Novel Library Normalization Kit

Sequencing workflows require library quantification and normalization to ensure data quality and reduce cost.

Mar

28

Featured Webinar

The Human Gene Mutation Database: Empowering a Generation of Geneticists for Precision Medicine

The Human Gene Mutation Database (HGMD) is a manually curated, comprehensive collection of disease-causing, germline mutations. Since 1996, a team of experts has manually catalogued over a quarter of a million mutations for the database.

Menu