title: Should insurance pay for preventive services suggested by genetics?
abstract: Physicians, plans and patients are discovering that the promise of genetic testing will be hard to fulfill. Even when a test can show predisposition toward a disease, performing it can't necessarily improve medical outcomes. Unfortunately, doing these tests can have some unintended negative effects.
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Lawrence
mesh_terms: D019313:BRCA1 Protein / Q000235:genetics; D001943:Breast Neoplasms / Q000235:genetics / Q000517:prevention & control; D005260:Female; D005817:Genetic Counseling; D030342:Genetic Diseases, Inborn / Q000191:economics / Q000517:prevention & control*; D020022:Genetic Predisposition to Disease; D005820:Genetic Testing / Q000191:economics*; D006291:Health Policy; D016045:Human Genome Project; D006801:Humans; D007342:Insurance Benefits; D009329:Nebraska; D010051:Ovarian Neoplasms / Q000235:genetics / Q000517:prevention & control; D010353:Patient Education as Topic; D011314:Preventive Health Services / Q000191:economics* / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence; D012307:Risk Factors; D014481:United States