News Briefs

TRANSPERS researchers publish JAMA paper on payer coverage considerations for new Alzheimer’s disease tests
Sep 30, 2024
JAMA publication by TRANSPERS Collaborators Addresses Rapid Emergence of State Biomarker Testing Insurance Coverage Laws
May 13, 2024
TRANSPERS Awarded 5-Year NIH Grant to Build Evidence Base for Policies on Emerging Genomic Tests
Jul 08, 2021
Genetics in Medicine Publication by TRANSPERS Analyzes Private Payer Coverage Policies for ApoE Genetic Testing for Late-Onset Alzheimer’s Disease
Jan 08, 2021
JAMA Publication by UCSF Center for Translational and Policy Research (TRANSPERS) Finds Global Use and Funding of Clinical Genomic Sequencing Expands but More Data on Implementation Are Needed
Oct 26, 2020
TRANSPERS awarded NIH grant to tackle challenges of using precision medicine to identify risk for Alzheimer’s and related dementias
Aug 14, 2020
TRANSPERS Study Finds Increase in Coverage for Liquid Biopsy (ctDNA sequencing) for both Private Payers and Medicare - but Broader Pan-Cancer Coverage under Medicare
Jul 07, 2020
Set of Papers in Value In Health Address Methods for Moving Evaluation of Precision Medicine into Practice and Policy
May 08, 2020
TRANSPERS & UCSF P3EGS publish study in GIM, finding 71% of private payers now cover pediatric Exome Sequencing (ES) but no payers covered prenatal ES
Sep 12, 2019
TRANSPERS JAMA Publication Is First to Examine Policy Implications of Emergence of New Model for Genetic Testing
May 30, 2019
Value In Health September issue addresses challenges and solutions for assessment of the value of clinical genomic testing
Sep 14, 2018
TRANSPERS Researchers Find Increase in Private Payer Coverage of Whole Exome Sequencing in collaboration with the NHGRI-funded UCSF Program in Prenatal and Pediatric Genome Sequencing
Aug 15, 2018
Moving into the Next Decade of NIH Funding: UCSF TRANSPERS Receives $2.3M in NCI Funding to Study Economics and Decision-Making for Precision Medicine
Jul 13, 2018
UCSF Center for Translational and Policy Research on Personalized Medicine (TRANSPERS) Addresses Rapid Evolution of Genomic Sequencing in two Washington Post Articles
Jun 12, 2018
TRANSPERS publication in JAMA lays out health policy agenda on new CMS coverage policy for sequencing tests in cancer patients
Apr 17, 2018
TRANSPERS Director Speaks out on Access Issues In Health Affairs Posting
Dec 19, 2017
New TRANSPERS Study Finds Variable Insurer Coverage of New Genetic Tests
Jul 13, 2017
New TRANSPERS study teams up with leading experts to identify evidence gaps in genomic medicine that comparative effectiveness research can address
Apr 13, 2017
New TRANSPERS Study Identifies Opportunities to Resolving Reimbursement Challenges for Genetic Panel Tests for Cancer Risk Assessment
Feb 16, 2017
Value In Health features TRANSPERS papers and commentary on assessing the value of precision medicine and other Big Data technologies
Feb 10, 2017

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