Recent policy changes help increase access to recommended non-invasive colorectal cancer screening tests. These policy changes require Medicare and most commercial insurers to pay for colonoscopy after a positive Cologuard test without cost to the patient. For most patients, these financial protections take effect starting Jan. 1.
Justin Taylor, a physician-scientist at Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center, part of the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, has received a Stanley J. Glaser Foundation Research Award to continue the research.
