Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Transplant advocates said a language change in Medicare payment policy would limit availability of a test used ...

Just 48 hours after her birth in a Seattle-area hospital in 2021, Layla Babayev was undergoing surgery for a bowel obstruction. Two weeks later, she had another emergency surgery, and then developed ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — More than 130 lawmakers are urging the Obama administration to expand coverage for a lung-cancer test under Medicare that could cost the program billons, calling the screening ...

(Reuters) - Guardant Health said its blood test to detect cancer that starts in the colon or rectum got an approval from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, with the test moving closer toward ...

WASHINGTON -- Heart transplant patient Eddie Garcia was "feeling like a million bucks" one day in the summer of 2021. He had just gotten back from a 3-mile walk, something he couldn't do prior to his ...

An emerging category of laboratory tests may help improve care and treatment outcomes for cancer patients, according to a recent survey by the nonprofit CancerCare, but insurers and employers do not ...

Test developers who are seeking coverage by public and private payers often resort to clinical practice guidelines as support for their pleas for coverage, but payers aren’t always persuaded by these ...