CEO SUMMARY: Since 2014, a toxicology lab at the University of Colorado has used mass spectrometry to offer low-cost, accurate multi-analyte test panels that can detect hundreds of therapeutic drugs and drugs of abuse. However, CU Toxicology’s chief medical officer says health insurers are slow to accept this diagnostic technology, despite its demonstrated clinical benefit […]
Mass Spec Tests Struggle To Gain Insurers’ Attention
Why are payers, providers missing the opportunity to make this low-cost testing technology available?
- By Joseph Burns
- > From the Volume XXIV No. 9 - June 26, 2017 Issue
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