We reimburse production people for the co-pay on their health insurance when they include screening for lead in their blood test.
Personnel Department has always been opposed to this on the grounds that it�s unfair since front office people don�t receive a compensating benefit. [We always tell them they can get their blood tested for free along with the troop out-back.] So, their latest red herring to get rid of the program is that the administrative costs out-weight the benefits with is new US HIPPA regulation [ http://www.hhs.gov/ocr/hipaa/ ]. We don�t see where there�s any need for additional record keeping [employee gets tested / employee pays co-pay / employee turns co-pay receipt into petty cash / accounting puts a tick mark and the date next to that person�s name in a log].
So, as you can imagine [hopefully you can't imagine this], this has degraded to �did not� / �did too�. Especially, since no one has a clue of the true impact of HIPPA.
What do yall offer your employees in the area of health screening?
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