We toss the term "precision medicine" around with ease today, and yet payers continue to refuse to pay for diagnostic tests.
These are tests that might indicate which treatment will work for a specific patient, thereby saving perhaps hundreds of thousands of dollars, not to mention protecting the patient from unnecessary harm. These are tests which prevent invasive procedures such as unnecessary biopsies.

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