Payer reimbursement practices and incentives for improving interpretation of germline genetic testing.

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"CONFLICT OF INTEREST Patricia Deverka, Matan Cohen and Charles Mathews consult for multiple companies involved in genetic testing. Gillian Hooker works at Concert Genetics, which is involved in monitoring which tests are available, and coordinating between payers and laboratories. She is co-inventor of two patents related to such services. Robert Cook-Deegan is an advisor to Genome Quebec, the Australian Enabling Openness in Stem Cell Research Project, and the Human Pangenome Research Consortium; and an unpaid advisor to BRCA Exchange, the Center for Genomic Interpretation (Utah), the Canadian Network for Learning Healthcare Systems and Cost-Effective 'Omics Innovation, and the Earth BioGenome Project."

"FUNDING This work was supported by NIH grant R01 CA237118 ‘The Sulston Project: Making the Knowledge Commons for Interpreting Cancer Genomic Variants More Effective’ and augmented by ‘Policies to Improve Assessment of Inherited Cancer Risk’ from the Greenwall Foundation."