Priority Health to cover FoundationOne genomic profiles

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Priority Health announced it plans to cover the FoundationOne and FoundationOne Heme genomic profiles for patients with cancer developed by Foundation Medicine Inc.

FoundationOne interrogates the entire coding region in 315 genes and select introns in 28 genes commonly altered in solid tumors, according to Foundation Medicine. FoundationOne Heme analyzes DNA in 405 genes and RNA in 265 genes that are most commonly altered in hematologic malignancies, sarcomas and select pediatric cancers.

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