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Oregon flirts with—and quickly abandons—plan to deny Medicaid payment for next-generation sequencing
By Matthew Bin Han Ong
The Oregon Health Authority did a considerable amount of work to prepare a plan that would deny Medicaid coverage for next-generation sequencing tests in the state.
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