Paying for Precision Medicine

If you have a type of cancer with a genetic change that can be treated with an approved drug, testing for genetic changes in your cancer is part of routine care. Therefore, your insurance company may cover the costs. To make sure, check with your insurance company to find out which costs it will cover.

If you join a precision medicine clinical trial, the cost of testing for genetic changes may be covered by the organization sponsoring the trial. To be sure, check with the trial staff and make sure that you understand your consent form.

If there is not an approved targeted drug for your type of cancer and you are not in a clinical trial using precision medicine, your insurance company will probably not cover the costs of having your cancer tested for genetic changes.

Testing for genetic changes requires the use of complex technology and requires the services of people with specialized training. Therefore, this testing can be expensive.

https://www.cancer.gov/about-cancer/treatment/types/precision-medicine