Pacific Edge outlines Plan B at annual meeting

Pacific Edge outlines Plan B at annual meeting
Pacific Edge still awaits a decision about Medicare. (Image: Pacific Edge)
Victoria Young
It was standing room only for investors pressing cancer diagnostics firm Pacific Edge’s board and management about its wider plans at the firm’s AGM in Auckland on Tuesday. At least 70 shareholders were keen on more details about pending Medicare coverage for the Dunedin-headquartered firm. Chief executive Peter Meintjes told investors the company is in a “head-down, bum-up situation" as it awaits a decision from the US about access to the Medicare system from Novitas, the Medicare Administrative Contractor (MAC...

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