Invitae's Breast Cancer Tests Get New Medicare Reimbursement Code

Apr 19, 2016

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NEW YORK (GenomeWeb) – Invitae announced today that its multi-gene tests for hereditary breast cancer-related disorders will now be reimbursed by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) under a new molecular diagnostics current procedure terminology (CPT) code.

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