Cancer and heart disease affect employers
Cancer and heart disease are the number 1 and 2 leading causes of death for Americans. Combined, the two cost the United States more than $350 billion each year, helping fuel a dramatic rise in insurance premiums.1-4
Cancer treatment alone accounts for:
- 12% of employers’ total medical costs in the United States.5
- Nearly 8 weeks of lost work time per year per patient, on average.6
- Approximately 25% of cancer survivors not returning to work after treatment ends.7
Heart disease is a significant—and growing—concern:
- On average, an employee with heart disease costs their employer nearly 60 hours and over $1,100 in lost productivity per year than an employee without heart disease.8
- By 2035, nearly half of the US population will have some form of heart disease.9
Reduce those costs by helping your team prevent serious illness
When employers offer genetic testing as an employee benefit, employees can learn about inherited risks for conditions like cancer or heart disease. Armed with this information, employees are empowered to take steps to stay healthy, including:
- increased or earlier screenings to find cancer or heart disease early, when it’s most treatable
- lifestyle modifications to delay onset of disease
- early intervention to possibly prevent the onset of disease altogether
Testing trusted by experts
Invitae’s medical-quality tests are trusted by doctors and designed by the world’s leading experts in genetics and healthcare. Our industry-leading technology makes it easy and affordable to get genetic information to guide essential health decisions. Offering genetic testing as an employee benefit is a proactive way for employers to invest in the health and well-being of their team. More than 5 million people have accessed their genetic information with Invitae.
Invitae makes it easy
Invitae’s workflow is easy to implement and supported by experts at every step.
1. Promote awareness
Access tools and resources to help drive employee awareness.
2. Online ordering
An employee requests testing using Invitae’s simple and secure online portal.
3. Independent order review
An independent physician reviews and, if appropriate, approves the selected test.
4. Sample collection
Invitae ships a saliva collection kit to your employee’s home, where they collect a saliva sample on their own time before sending the kit back to Invitae.
5. Online results
Results are delivered directly to an employee via Invitae’s secure online portal.
6. Personalized support
Invitae genetic counselors can answer employees’ questions and review results in 1:1 sessions (at no additional charge).
A customizable suite of proactive tests to inform health decisions
Explore the benefits of genetic testing in the workplace and learn whether your employees are more likely to develop certain conditions, so they can take steps to try to stay healthy now and in the future.
Cancer screening
Looks at more than 60 genes to assess your employees’ risk of developing an inherited form of cancer.
Cardio screening
Looks at more than 80 genes to assess your employees’ risk of developing an inherited form of cardiovascular (heart) disease.
Genetic health screening
Looks at more than 167 genes to assess your employees’ risk of developing an inherited form of cancer or cardiovascular (heart) disease—and more.