Diagnostics
10 diagnostics reimbursement experts
These ten professionals have held reimbursement, payer or market access leadership roles at diagnostics and laboratory testing companies. A reader can learn how coverage, coding and payer strategies are built for diagnostic tests and how billing and reimbursement operations are run.
Professionals to explore
01—10Barbara M.
LinkedInExperience: Senior Director, Strategic Reimbursement · NeoGenomics Laboratories
Senior Director, Strategic Reimbursement at NeoGenomics Laboratories since 2016; the profile lists specialties in reimbursement and government affairs, healthcare medical policy, CMS and MACs, technology assessments, and coding, coverage and reimbursement. She was Global Director, Reimbursement, Healthcare Economics and Health Policy, Neuromodulation Division at St. Jude Medical (2013–2016) and Senior Director, Reimbursement Affairs, Government Healthcare Policy & Accreditation at Biomet (1994–2011).
Brian Belle
LinkedInExperience: Senior Vice President, Payer Strategy & Reimbursement · Myriad Genetics
Senior Vice President, Payer Strategy & Reimbursement at Myriad Genetics since January 2026. His other Myriad Genetics roles include Vice President, National Payer Markets (2021–2026), Director, Payer Markets and Reimbursement (2018–2021) and Senior Regional Account Manager (2013–2018); the profile describes market access work in the pharmaceutical and molecular diagnostic industries, including partnerships with managed care organizations and government accounts.
Carrie McGehee
LinkedInExperience: Vice President of Health Economics, Outcomes and Reimbursement · Pathnostics - A Diagnostics Solutions Company
Former Vice President of Health Economics, Outcomes and Reimbursement at Pathnostics - A Diagnostics Solutions Company (2019–2021) and VP Managed Care and Reimbursement at Caris Life Sciences (2016). She has been VP of Market Access at BillionToOne since 2021; the profile describes building, delivering and maintaining strategic reimbursement and payer relations plans.
Debbie Stephens Ledet
LinkedInExperience: Head of Market Access & Reimbursement · NeoGenomics Laboratories
Former Head of Market Access & Reimbursement at NeoGenomics Laboratories (2023–2024), and Chief Access Officer at Octave since February 2024. The profile says she secures CPT codes, reimbursement, medical policy coverage and commercial and governmental contracts, and describes market access work across molecular diagnostics, medical devices and other healthcare technologies.
Devki Saraiya Nagar
LinkedInExperience: Director - Payer Markets and Reimbursement · Myriad Genetics
Former Director - Payer Markets and Reimbursement at Myriad Genetics (2018–2024), and Vice President, Payer Markets there since February 2026 after serving as Sr. Director - Market Access (2024–2026). The profile describes shaping reimbursement and payer policy across precision medicine, oncology, women's health and mental health, and building payer value stories.
Donna Polizio
LinkedInExperience: VP, Managed Care and Reimbursement · Genomic Health
Former VP, Managed Care and Reimbursement at Genomic Health (2011–2019) and Director of Reimbursement at RedPath Integrated Pathology (2010–2011). She was also VP Market Access at Exact Sciences (2019–2022) and Global Head of Market Access at Bionano (2022–2025), and has been Head of Strategy, Market Access at Natera since April 2025.
Jerry Conway
LinkedInExperience: VP of Reimbursement & Payer Strategy · Foundation Medicine
Former VP of Reimbursement & Payer Strategy at Foundation Medicine (2012–2018). He has been Senior Vice President of Market Access at Belay Diagnostics since 2024, and was Senior Vice President of Market Access at GeneDx (2022–2023) and at Scipher Medicine (2019–2022) and Executive Vice President at CDx Diagnostics (2018–2019); the profile describes building and commercializing diagnostic tools.
Natalie Thurston, RN, MBA
LinkedInExperience: Vice President Reimbursement · NavDx
Vice President Reimbursement at NavDx since April 2025, and Senior Director RCM and Payer Engagement there since 2023; the profile headline places the role at Naveris, Inc., which it describes as developing blood tests that identify viral cancers earlier than scans or biopsies. She was Senior Director Reimbursement Strategic Operations at Lucid Diagnostics (2023).
Patricia Petrucci
LinkedInExperience: Senior Director Reimbursement · Adaptive Biotechnologies Corp.
Senior Director Reimbursement at Adaptive Biotechnologies Corp. since September 2025, where the profile says she oversees and manages the billing and reimbursement functions for Adaptive's CLIA lab service, working with physicians, payers and patients. She was Senior Director Billing Operations at CDx Diagnostics Inc. (2018–2025) and Senior Director, Revenue Cycle Management at Bio Reference Laboratories Inc - GeneDx (2015–2018).
Stephen Reynolds
LinkedInExperience: Sr. Director of Reimbursement Revenue Cycle Management · Biotheranostics, Inc., A Hologic Company
Sr. Director of Reimbursement Revenue Cycle Management at Biotheranostics, Inc., A Hologic Company since 2016, and Director of Reimbursement Managed Care at Pathway Genomics Corporation (2015). The profile describes knowledge of medical billing and reimbursement processes and billing systems, including compliance, CCI and OIG regulations, MolDx and CMS.
Choose the right perspective
Match the person's experience to your stage, since winning first coverage for a new test differs from running billing and collections for an established lab. For coverage and coding strategy, favor people in payer strategy or market access roles, and for claims and collections questions, favor those who ran reimbursement or revenue cycle operations.
Questions to take into the conversation
- 01How do you plan the path to Medicare coverage for a new diagnostic test, including MolDX and local coverage decisions?
- 02What evidence do commercial payers ask for before covering a new test, and how do you build it?
- 03How do you set up billing and appeals so that denied claims for tests are recovered?
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