New technologies don’t wait to emerge until the
policies for handling them are in place. That’s
certainly the case with genetic testing. It’s been
coming over the horizon for years, but healthcare
has been caught unprepared by the dramatic growth
in the adoption of testing and the variety of tests.
Providers and health plans are scrambling to
determine the validity and utility of tests, while
dealing with an inadequate system for coding and
management.

In Chapter 3 of Transforming the Management of Genetic Testing, we discuss the benefits for all parties involved in genetic testing: patients, providers, health plans, and labs.