Pacific Edge's long US wait is over – or is it?

Pacific Edge's long US wait is over – or is it?
Gavin Evans
Pacific Edge’s new contract with California-based health-provider Kaiser Permanente takes effect in November. It has been a long time coming. Trials with Kaiser – one of the biggest not-for-profit health schemes in the US – started in 2015. The contract is one of two big wins for Dunedin-based Pacific Edge this year; in July two of the firm’s bladder cancer tests were approved for funding by the US-based CMS – operators of the federal government’s Medicare and Medicaid health insurance systems – at US$760 per test. “We started to see t...

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