Multi-Risk Test (practitioners) AU - geneType™
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Make comprehensive risk assessment
part of your routine practice

Your patient may be eligible for two or more geneTypes.
Review the eligibility criteria for each below.

Proactive healthcare

A wellness visit general health check is an opportunity to consider your patient’s ongoing health and motivate them to maintain healthy lifestyles and compliant screening practices.

Preventive care visits are an important tool available to physicians to promote patient understanding of:

  • The factors that influence their health and wellbeing throughout their lives.
  • Lifestyle modifications to reduce disease-risk (e.g. smoking cessation, improved nutrition, reducing alcohol consumption, increased physical activity)
  • Risk assessment to engage in enhanced screening and risk-reduction opportunities (e.g. for cancer, coronary artery disease and type 2 diabetes)
  • Participate in screening (e.g. for breast and colorectal cancers)

Incorporate geneType™ into your patient’s next general health check

While many risk assessments focus on family history and heritable genetic markers², geneType™ Multi Test goes beyond this by incorporating clinical, familial and genetic factors that affect disease risk.

Your patient’s risk assessment can then be used to develop a personalised, preventative health plan that includes screening, risk-reducing medication and/or lifestyle interventions. 

 

Testing is simple

Step 1

Register as a provider; our team will provide clinical education and other resources as needed.

We will send kits to your clinic to have on hand.

Step 2

Discuss geneType™ with your patient.

Would geneType™ help them qualify for additional risk reduction strategies?

Step 3

Complete the Test Requisition form, collect a saliva sample from the patient with the collection kit provided and return both to Rhythm.

You will have the option to use a paper requisition, or a secure, compliant portal to complete the ordering process.

Step 4

Leave the rest to us.

We will notify you when your patient’s results are ready.

You will have the option to request a consult with a genetic counsellor, whether to review your patient’s results and/or to follow-up with your patient, as needed.

Register as a geneType™ provider

Actionable clinical insights

geneType™ reports reflect the tests that you requested on your patient’s clinical questionnaire. Reports are structured to make the results easy to interpret and communicate to your patients.

Reports include:

  • Snapshot of your patient’s absolute risk scores
  • Interpretation of what their risk scores mean in the context of current guidelines
  • Polygenic risk score indicating your patient’s “baseline” risk for disease
  • Information about modifiable risk factors
  • The types of disease-specific screening and risk-reduction interventions available to your patient

We have developed a guide to help you navigate the geneType™ tests.

Contact us for more information.

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Sample patient report

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Is this test reimbursed by insurance?

This test is not generally covered by insurance. A billing form will be included in the test kit that lists the payment options. Your patient may use their FSA/HSA to pay for the test as well.

Ready to get started with geneType?

The first step is to trial geneType™ at your practice.

Register as a geneType™ provider
References
  1. National Cancer Institute. Genetics of Colorectal Cancer (PDQ®)–Health Professional Version. Accessed June 2022.
  2. Kanth P, Inadomi JM. BMJ 2021;374:n1855.
  3. Gafni A et al. PloS One 2021;16:e0251469.
  4. Bibbins-Domingo K; U.S. Preventive Services Task Force. Ann Intern Med 2016;164(12):836-45.

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