According to national statistics provided by the Quest Diagnostics Drug Testing Index (General Workforce), about 4 percent of all drug tests are positive.
It’s looking prety good so far for the instant urine test. Now we’ll
examine the soſt dollar costs and then combine the hard and soſt dollar costs:
Instant Cost Factor
Lost Work Time for Employee (@$10.10/ hour)
Lost Work Time for
Supervisors (@$24/hour)
Total Cost of Workers’ Time
Urine Testing (.50 hours)*
$5.05 $12.00
(a supervisor or other person will administer this test and some lost work time will occur)
$17.05 Lab-based
Oral Fluid Testing (.25 hours)
$2.53 $6.00
(a supervisor or other person will administer this test and some lost work time will occur)
$8.53
* This estimate of time (half hour) assumes that individuals are not sent to off-site collection facilities; if they are, the time to administer a test increases to 1.5 hours and the cost of lost work time also increases.
Cost of a Drug Test (all services combined)
Workers’ Time (employees plus supervisors)
REAL COST
$10.00 $17.05 $27.05
$25.00 $8.53 $33.53 Te above cost comparison assumes that a company will admin-
ister the tests internally and that confirmation and MRO costs will never be incurred. However, it is always a good idea, if not a legal requirement in some states, to confirm initial screen positives from a POCT device and have an MRO verify the confirmed results. According to national statistics provided by the Quest
Diagnostics Drug Testing Index (General Workforce), about 4 percent of all drug tests are positive. This means that 4 percent of the time, employers will send a urine sample collected for an instant test to a laboratory for confirmation testing and then engage the services of an MRO for verification. For a company conducting 1,000 drug tests a year, 4 percent of those tests will cost more than the 96 percent of the tests that are negative and, perhaps, not sent to a laboratory.
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