{"id":10480,"date":"2018-05-22T10:46:26","date_gmt":"2018-05-22T14:46:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=10480"},"modified":"2018-05-22T10:46:26","modified_gmt":"2018-05-22T14:46:26","slug":"are-you-and-your-primary-care-doc-ready-to-talk-about-your-dna","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=10480","title":{"rendered":"Are You And Your Primary Care Doc Ready To Talk About Your DNA?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(By Michelle Andrews for Kaiser Health News)<\/p>\n<p>If you have a genetic mutation that increases your risk for a treatable medical condition, would you want to know? For many people the answer is yes. But such information is not commonly part of routine primary care.<\/p>\n<p>For patients at Geisinger Health System, that could soon change.\u00a0Starting in the next month or so, the Pennsylvania-based system will\u00a0offer DNA sequencing to 1,000 patients, with the goal to eventually extend the offer to all 3 million Geisinger patients. <a href=\"https:\/\/khn.org\/news\/are-you-and-your-primary-care-doc-ready-to-talk-about-your-dna\/?utm_campaign=KHN%3A%20First%20Edition&amp;utm_source=hs_email&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_content=63110809&amp;_hsenc=p2ANqtz-8lfOjJ75Qd1P1oq3DZ4TeN5TzFTR-pZUD18K0i5yHp8PDVgMvyBqUrlKqK6K6SWrYeD9X6Jluvc85YvYRHxOS1BoZdxg&amp;_hsmi=63110809\">Continue reading article here&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; outline: 0px; border: 0px currentColor; color: #444444; text-transform: none; line-height: 1.6; text-indent: 0px; letter-spacing: normal; font-family: 'Open Sans', serif; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; word-spacing: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; font-stretch: inherit; background-color: #ffffff; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit;\">Kaiser Health News is a nonprofit national health policy news service that is part of the nonpartisan Henry J. 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