Children's Hospital Boston Seeks Payor Partners to Contribute to Longitudinal Genomics Research

"If we are going to prove that we can save money" by incorporating genomics into the care of patients treated at Children's Hospital Boston, "then payors should join us as thinking partners and share in those saving," Dietrich Stephan, executive director of the hospital's Gene Partnership program, said last week at a conference focused on the reimbursement challenges surrounding personalized medicine.