Tag: laboratory testing
Incorporating blood tests into older-age underwriting facilitates faster policy issue and decreased costs
Adding additional laboratory test components to replace traditional older-age underwriting requirements helps insurers save time and money.
Ask the expert: Customizing your laboratory results to facilitate faster results
Several clients indicated that waiting for sensitive laboratory results can cause a delay in their underwriting process. By updating your sensitive tests, results can be delivered faster.
Glycolysis and hemolysis: Does it still matter to life insurers?
Specimen quality is critical for the life insurance underwriting process. With advances in lab testing protocol, do glycolysis and hemolysis still matter?
Take action on World Hepatitis Day
Each summer, the World Health Organization commemorates World Hepatitis Day on July 28 to spread awareness. Hepatitis is one of the world’s leading causes of death with 1.34 millions deaths a year. It is important for the world to join together and take action to eliminate hepatitis.
The rise in workforce drug positivity may be a concern among the life insurance population
As workforce drug positivity continues to rise, we are evaluating the correlation to life insurance drug abuse positivity. According to the 2018 Quest Diagnostics Drug Testing Index, workforce drug positivity is at its highest rate we've seen in a decade.
Insights that help insurers improve precision underwriting in the life insurance market
Applicant nondisclosure in life insurance can sometimes cost insurance companies millions. Understand what's at stake when you miss vital information regarding an applicant's health history.
