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Should insurance pay for preventive services suggested by genetics?

Managed care (Langhorne, Pa.) - 1 Jan 1997

Lawrence J

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Physicians, plans and patients are discovering that the promise of genetic testing will be hard to fulfill. Even when a test can show predisposition toward a disease, performing it can't necessarily improve medical outcomes. Unfortunately, doing these tests can have some unintended negative effects.

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