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 guidelines. Lon Castle of Evicore Health told test makers that while these guidelines are often helpful, many of them are well ahead of the evidence, and that test developers would do well to check the data behind the guidelines before reciting them to payers.
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