Company mandated health screening

[finnbow]

If you don't disclose your family medical history, and your previous medical history, then you are depriving the doctor you see every year of their best tool to providing you good healthcare.....
By disclosing, you enable your doctor conducting the physical to make an informed, biased analysis to your medical favor, and you make the medical facility carry the onus of nondisclosure as mandated by HPPA. That is the best of both worlds.

Disclosing medical conditions to a employer/insurer and a doctor are two different matters altogether.

 

[PickyEars81]

If you don't disclose your family medical history, and your previous medical history, then you are depriving the doctor you see every year of their best tool to providing you good healthcare.

If you think your company might want to fire you because you have had cancer, imagine their defense when they lay you off over concerns that you did not disclose a previous history of cancer.

{On the stand} Your honor, the former employee never stated a history of cancer, so we had no idea he was in remission/had concerns of reoccurrence/had health issues. That is a free ticket for the company.

By disclosing, you enable your doctor conducting the physical to make an informed, biased analysis to your medical favor, and you make the medical facility carry the onus of nondisclosure as mandated by HPPA. That is the best of both worlds.

If it is a new company, the insurance company can probably request the information anyway, lawfully, from the healthcare provider to make sure that the pre existing conditions clause has been met, for instance, given that procedures or services are provided within the time frame of the pre existing conditions clause (generally 6 months from effective date of coverage.) So, not disclosing it on the form does not mean that they will not have access to that information. The employer, however, should almost never be provided any confidential information, such as previous treatments. Filling out the insurance form should not inform the employer, and he should have the option to send it directly to the insurance company, thus circumventing any HR personnel who may use it for malicious purposes.