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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2017 Aug 11.
Published in final edited form as: Nat Biotechnol. 2017 Jul 12;35(7):614–617. doi: 10.1038/nbt.3912

Table 2.

Coverage of multigene tests (based on test names as listed in coverage policies; n = 55 policies)

Testing category Tests covered whenever mentioned in policies Tests not covered when mentioned in policies Tests covered in at least one policy but not covered in at least one other policy
Tumor profiling 3 19 1
Inherited neurological disease testing (e.g., developmental delays, hearing loss, Parkinson’s, X-linked disorders) 11 14 6
Inherited cancer testing 8 20 3
Inherited cardiovascular disease testing 13 16 11
Inherited metabolic/biochemical disease testing 1 11 3
Drug metabolism testing (pharmaco-genomics) 0 25 0
Whole exome sequencing 0 9 0
Whole genome sequencing 0 5 0
Prenatal testing 12 4 5
Carrier testing 1 5 0