Advancing Access to Precision Medicine Act of 2019 - H.R. 4393

This legislation is important  because it would pilot-test whether Medicaid coverage of a variety of types of genetic and genomic sequencing for children can help settle their diagnostic challenges, improve clinical outcomes, and ultimately reduce program expenditures. It also would direct the Department of Health and Human Services to work with the National Academy of Medicine to study, utilizing the information gained from the Medicaid pilot-testing, how genetic and genomic testing may improve health outcomes and how the federal government may reduce barriers to use of genetic and genomic testing.