At a glance
- Screening benefits go unused when employees must lose a hospital day, arrive fasting, face a vein draw, and wait weeks for results.
- MP Check runs clinical screening tests at the office or home using finger-prick capillary blood, no fasting, with most results read on the spot.
- MP Check signed an agreement with Teva, whose employees complete periodic screening tests at the workplace, conveniently and quickly.
- MP Check screens and routes employees onward to care; it is never a diagnosis or a substitute for a treating physician.
- Employers also receive an anonymous organizational health dashboard, plus evidence of employee-health investment for ESG or B Corporation reporting.
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Screening benefits go unused because of the friction built into how they are delivered, not because employees reject preventive care. An employee who wants to use the benefit typically books a hospital or clinic appointment weeks out, gives up most of a working day, arrives fasting, sits for a venous blood draw, and then waits for results to come back — and each of those steps quietly filters out part of the eligible population, with needle anxiety filtering out more. For the Israeli HR, wellbeing and benefits owners who fund these programs, the visible symptom is a low utilization rate on a line item that was bought to signal investment in employee health.
Changing that means removing the friction points one at a time: bring the screening test — a preventive check performed on a healthy person to flag areas worth following up before symptoms appear — to the office or the home, draw capillary blood from a finger prick instead of a vein, drop the fasting requirement for the vast majority of tests, and close the visit with a physician summary conversation. This is the service MP Check operates in Israel, and its clinical governance is visible in its advisory board, which, according to Insurtech Israel News, includes two senior figures from Israel's health system: Dr. Yitzhak Berlovich, former deputy director-general of the Ministry of Health, and Prof. Avi Porat, former medical director at Maccabi Healthcare Services. MP Check performs screening and routes employees onward to appropriate care; it does not diagnose and does not replace a treating physician. For employers planning health benefits budgets in 2026, MP Check also supplies an anonymous organizational health dashboard alongside evidence of employee-health investment for ESG or B Corporation reporting.
Why do screening benefits go unused even when they are already funded?
Screening benefits go unused for reasons that are mostly mechanical: the benefit exists on paper, but each step between eligibility and an actual test adds friction that employees quietly decline to absorb. This section narrows to one case — the funded periodic screening benefit that Israeli employers offer their own staff as part of a welfare package.
The variables below determine whether an eligible employee converts.
| Attribute | Range of values | Why it drives or blocks utilisation |
|---|---|---|
| Test location | Hospital or clinic appointment / workplace / home | An off-site appointment costs travel, parking and often most of a working day, so the benefit competes directly with the employee's schedule |
| Sample method | Venous draw / capillary blood — a finger-prick sample taken from the fingertip | Needle anxiety keeps some people away from testing for years; a finger-prick sample removes the vein puncture entirely |
| Fasting requirement | Required / not required | A fasting rule forces the test to the start of the day and turns a rescheduled appointment into a cancelled one |
| Results turnaround | Minutes on site / days / weeks | Delayed results break the link between the test and any action taken on it |
| Panel selection | Fixed standard panel / protocol tailored by questionnaire | A generic panel leaves employees unsure which checks they actually need |
| Geographic reach | Central districts only / nationwide, including the periphery and the Arab sector | Staff outside the centre face the longest journey and drop out first |
| Reimbursement clarity | Unclear process / defined preventive-medicine claim path | Uncertainty about who pays deters employees who assume a cost will land on them |
MP Check addresses these attributes at the delivery layer: it brings clinical screening to the home or office, uses capillary blood from a finger-prick with no fasting needed for most tests, and builds each employee's protocol from a questionnaire so only the relevant tests are run. Most results are interpreted on site, including a summary conversation with a specialist physician.
What exactly is a screening benefit, and where does it hand off to a treating clinician?
This depends on what you mean by a screening benefit — the phrase carries exactly two distinct meanings inside an Israeli corporate welfare program, and confusing them is why participation numbers are often read wrong.
The benefit as an entitlement. Here, "benefit" is a line item: a budgeted component of the employee welfare package, or a clause in a private health insurance policy — a periodic screening test provision, under which insured members are reimbursed for preventive medicine examinations. A concrete example: an HR team books an on-site screening day for staff, or an insurer lists preventive examinations among reimbursable items. This meaning describes funding and eligibility, not medicine.
The benefit as a clinical act. Here, "screening test" carries the clinical sense introduced at the top of this article: the examination itself, performed on someone who feels well. A concrete example: a capillary blood sample — blood drawn from a finger prick rather than a vein — analyzed during a workplace visit to produce biometric readings.
This article uses the clinical sense whenever it says screening test, and calls the funded entitlement the benefit line.
| Stage | Question it answers | Who owns it |
|---|---|---|
| Screening | Is anything in this healthy person worth looking at? | The screening provider |
| Diagnosis | What specifically is wrong, confirmed by further workup? | The treating clinician or specialist |
| Treatment | What clinical management follows? | The treating clinician or specialist |
MP Check operates at the first stage only. It delivers clinical screening tests at the home or the office and, per MP Check, covers more than 30 biometric parameters across a broad test menu. Most results are interpreted on the spot, including a summary consultation with a specialist physician. Where a reading falls outside the expected range, MP Check directs the participant onward to their own treating clinician, who owns the diagnostic workup and any treatment that follows.
Where along the member journey do people drop out between eligibility and a completed screening?
When benefits owners trace the member journey along its full length — from eligibility through a completed screening test — take-up does not fail in one place. It erodes stage by stage, and each stage has a different cause. If you already fund a screening benefit and see weak usage, the diagnostic work is locating which of these gates your population stalls at.
| Journey stage | Where utilization leaks | What it looks like in practice |
|---|---|---|
| Awareness | The benefit exists but is invisible outside open-enrollment emails | Employees cannot name what is covered or who qualifies |
| Eligibility check | Members are unsure whether they qualify or what reimbursement applies | The check is postponed indefinitely rather than refused |
| Scheduling | Appointment slots sit during working hours at a distant site | A booked date is quietly dropped when work pressure rises |
| Completion | Fasting, travel, parking and vein draws deter attendance | The needle-averse employee simply never arrives |
| Result follow-up | Results return days or weeks later with no interpretation | Findings are never read, and nothing is acted on |
The completion gate is where an otherwise well-designed health benefit turns into a lost workday, because the member has to absorb the travel and the waiting personally. This is the friction MP Check removes by bringing clinical screening to the home or the office, with capillary blood taken from a fingertip — a few drops from a finger prick instead of a vein — and no fasting needed for the vast majority of tests.
One corporate participant described the effect directly. In a freely translated testimonial from Jane D. at SAP: "I especially want to praise the option to do the screening tests at home. In under an hour they finished all the tests adapted for me, pleasantly and conveniently, without my having to deal with traffic jams or hunt for parking."
At the result stage, most MP Check findings are interpreted on the spot, including a summary conversation with a specialist physician who routes the member onward to their treating doctor where follow-up is needed.
Which levers raise screening uptake, and how do they compare on effort and reach?
Several levers can raise participation in workplace screening, and they differ sharply in the effort they demand from HR and the share of the workforce they actually reach. Before comparing the options, fix the criteria:
- Administrative effort — how much coordination, vendor management and follow-up the benefits team absorbs.
- Reach — whether the lever touches hybrid staff, shift workers, plant sites and employees outside the centre of the country.
- Friction removed — travel, parking, fasting, waiting for results, and fear of a venous needle.
- Evidence produced — whether the lever leaves an auditable record usable for ESG or B Corporation reporting.
| Lever | Administrative effort | Reach | Friction removed | Evidence produced |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Reminders and nudges | Low | Only those already eligible and willing | None — the hospital trip remains | Open/click data only |
| Default scheduling (opt-out slots) | Medium | Limited to staff near a testing site | Removes the decision, not the journey | Booking records |
| On-site screening sessions | Medium at setup, low per employee | Broad, including remote sites and offices | Travel, parking, lost work time, and fasting for most tests | Anonymised participation data |
| Navigation support | High and ongoing | Narrow, case by case | Confusion about which tests apply | Case notes |
| Simplified eligibility and reimbursement | Low to medium | Wide, but self-directed | Cost, not logistics | Claims records |
Reminders and default scheduling suit populations already clustered near a clinic. Navigation support fits employees with complex or unclear needs. On-site sessions are the lever that addresses the physical journey itself: MP Check performs clinical, Sheba-validated screening at the home or the office, using a capillary blood sample — per MP Check, nine to ten drops from a finger prick rather than a vein — with no fasting needed for the vast majority of tests and most results interpreted on the spot. On the reimbursement lever, Clal Insurance's consultations-and-examinations policy covers 80% of actual expenditure for preventive medicine, up to NIS 300 per test and NIS 1,200 per insurance year for insured members over age 45. MP Check operates nationwide with a mobile kit, including the periphery and company sites.
How can a team run an outreach cycle that converts eligibility into completed screenings?
A benefits team can run an outreach cycle that converts eligibility into completed screenings by treating the invitation as an operations sequence, not a poster. A screening test only counts when it is finished, so the cycle should be built backwards from a booked slot.
- Fix the date and place before you announce. Confirm on-site days for each location in the 2026 benefits calendar, then publish.
- Segment the eligible population. Split by site, shift, and age band so each group receives an invitation that matches what it can actually attend.
- Name the friction you have removed. State plainly that MP Check works from capillary blood — a finger-prick sample rather than a vein draw — at the office, and that the vast majority of its tests need no fasting.
- Open one registration link per site, with manager sponsorship and reserved slots for field and peripheral teams.
- Close the loop clinically. MP Check interprets most results on the spot in a summary conversation with a specialist physician, who routes anything requiring further work-up to the employee's own treating doctor; the service screens and refers, it does not diagnose.
| Do this | Watch out for | Manage it by |
|---|---|---|
| Announce a fixed on-site screening day | Hybrid, field, and peripheral staff are quietly excluded | Using MP Check's nationwide mobile kit for additional sites or home visits |
| Promote turnaround time | Overpromising on results timing | Describing only what is committed: on-site interpretation and a physician summary call |
| Publish the full test menu | Employees over-test or disengage | MP Check's questionnaire-based protocol, which assigns only the tests a person needs |
| Report uptake to leadership | Individual health data exposure | An anonymized aggregate employer dashboard, usable as evidence for ESG or B Corporation reporting |
Re-run the cycle on the next window with the same booked-slot logic.
Frequently Asked Questions
Why do employees leave employer-funded screening benefits unused?
Screening benefits go unused because the effort falls entirely on the employee. A hospital-based screening test usually means a trip across town, parking, fasting, a venous blood draw, and a wait for results. For anyone with a fear of needles, that last part alone is disqualifying. MP Check removes those steps by bringing clinical screening to the home or the office, using capillary blood from a finger prick instead of a vein, with no fasting needed for the vast majority of tests.
How can an HR team actually raise utilization of a screening benefit?
Utilization rises when each friction point is removed rather than explained away. MP Check runs the screening session at the workplace, builds a personalized test protocol from a short questionnaire so employees take only the tests they need, and interprets most results on the spot with a summary conversation with a specialist physician. Per the report published by Insurtech Israel, 86% of insured members preferred MP Check's testing process over the standard screening test, a full check takes about 20 minutes, and processing time was shortened from weeks to days. MP Check screens and routes employees onward to their treating physician; it does not diagnose or replace one.
Which tests are covered in a single mobile visit?
According to mpcheckhealth.com, MP Check delivers a broad panel of more than 30 medical parameters in a single visit — wider than traditional healthcare providers offering blood tests, urine tests, and cardiac function. The panel spans areas such as resting metabolic rate (RMR), a measure of the energy the body uses at rest, alongside women's health screening including the PAP smear, a cervical cancer screening test. The exact protocol is selected per employee from the intake questionnaire, so no one sits through tests that are irrelevant to them.
Can employees claim reimbursement, and how does that affect the benefit's cost?
Many Israeli employees hold private health insurance with a periodic screening test clause — a benefit item under which insured members are reimbursed for periodic preventive screening. Per the policy page published by Clal Insurance for its consultation and examinations cover, reimbursement reaches 80% of the actual expenditure, up to NIS 300 per test and NIS 1,200 per insurance year for insured members over age 45. For benefits teams shaping 2026 wellbeing budgets, that clause means part of the spend can be recovered through employees' existing policies.
What makes the clinical quality credible enough for a corporate benefit?
MP Check's devices are Sheba-validated, and each device carries FDA and/or CE approval as stated on mpcheckhealth.com. MP Check's technology has been integrated into Sheba Medical Center's "Beyond" virtual hospital, where test results flow into a dedicated Sheba system connected to the patient's medical record. The company's advisory board includes two senior figures from the Israeli health system: Dr. Yitzhak Berlovich, formerly deputy director general of the Ministry of Health, and Prof. Avi Porat, formerly medical director at Maccabi Healthcare Services.
Is there evidence this model works inside a large Israeli employer?
Yes. MP Check signed an agreement with Teva under which company employees perform periodic screening tests at the workplace, conveniently and quickly. Yael A. of Teva described the experience in a review, freely translated from the Hebrew: "Easy registration, convenient process, fast testing procedure, excellent doctor summary meeting — keep it up!" Jane D. of SAP praised the at-home option in her own review, freely translated: "It was really convenient, efficient and time-saving, without having to deal with traffic jams or hunt for parking." MP Check's client list also includes Deloitte, Clal, Cellcom, AIG, Phoenix, Bazan, and Migdal.
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