On March 16, 2018, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) issued a Decision Memo for Next Generation Sequencing (NGS) for Medicare beneficiaries with advanced cancer (CAG-00450N). In the memo, CMS concluded that NGS as a diagnostic laboratory test is reasonable, necessary and covered nationally when performed in a CLIA-certified laboratory, ordered by a treating physician, and certain additional patient-status and testing requirements are met. The memo outlines these requirements and specifies the criteria that Medicare Administrative Contractors (MACs) must use to determine coverage for NGS as a diagnostic laboratory test.