Guardant Health receives medicare coverage for Guardant Reveal™ on Smart Liquid Biopsy™ platform for surveillance testing in colorectal cancer patients (Guardant Health Press Release)
Guardant Health, Inc...today announced that Palmetto GBA, a Medicare administrative contractor that administers the Molecular Diagnostics Services program (MolDX), granted coverage for the Guardant Reveal test to monitor for disease recurrence in patients with colorectal cancer (CRC) following curative intent therapy. Guardant Reveal, which runs on Guardant’s Smart Liquid Biopsy platform, is a blood test that uses epigenomic (methylation) analysis to detect circulating tumor DNA (ctDNA), a marker of minimal residual disease (MRD), to predict cancer recurrence, helping to guide clinical decisions after surgery or chemotherapy.