Company: CSTL
Filing Date: 2025-11-03
Form Type: 10-Q
Source: 0001628280-25-048254
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Company: CASTLE BIOSCIENCES INC
Filing Date: 2025-11-03
Form: 10-Q
Item: Item 2
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Dx-UM tests are processed from our Phoenix laboratory and are covered under LCDs finalized by MAC administrators Palmetto and Noridian in July 2017. DecisionDx-UM has met the criteria of “existing advanced diagnostic laboratory test” status, also referred to as “existing ADLT” status, as determined by the CMS, since May 2019. Our rate is set annually based upon the median private payor rate for the first half of the second preceding calendar year. For example, the rate for 2024 was set using median private payor rate data from January 1, 2022 to June 30, 2022. Our rate for 2024 was $7,776 per test and remains at $7,776 per test for 2025.

IDgenetix

IDgenetix is currently covered under a Noridian LCD policy and accompanying billing and coding article developed by MolDX. During 2023, we obtained a test-specific PLA CPT code for IDgenetix which became effective October 1, 2023. In November 2023, CMS posted its final CLFS determination which crosswalks our PLA CPT code to an existing PLA code at a rate of $1,336 per test effective January 1, 2024. Our reimbursement rate for 2024 was $1,336 per test and remained at $1,336 per test in the first quarter of 2025. Our IDgenetix test was discontinued in May 2025.

Government Regulation and Oversight of Laboratory Developed Tests

On May 6, 2024, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (“FDA”) published a final rule on the regulation of Laboratory Developed Tests (“LDTs”) which amended the FDA's regulations to make explicit that LDT’s are devices under the Federal Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act (“FD&C Act”). However, on March 31, 2025, the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Texas vacated the FDA’s LDT final rule. The U.S. government did not appeal the decision, and the FDA rescinded the rule on September 19, 2025. Accordingly, the FDA’s phased enforcement approach and related requirements are no longer in effect. Our proprietary tests, which were first marketed prior to May 6, 2024, remain approved by and under the oversight of the New York State Department of Health (“NYSDOH”), and we continue to believe that changes in FDA’s regulatory approach