What type of employer can best benefit from HMTS services?
HMTS can provide help to the small to medium employer who is too big or busy to make their own arrangements, but too small to qualify for volume discounts given by major laboratory chains. An employer that operates in just one location can set-up an account with a local laboratory or medical clinic, that can usually be located in the Yellow Pages under “Drug Detection.” However, if an employer has multiple locations, or has applicants from a wide variety of areas, it is burdensome and expensive set-up pre-employment drug testing all over. Before HMTS, a employer had to set up multiple relationships with different collection sites and laboratories, which was expensive and time consuming. Unless firms do a substantial amount of drug testing and has the resource for an in-house coordinator, it can be difficult to work with a national drug testing firm. There are regional firms that provide these services, but they normally need the employer to commit to certain exact collection sites ahea
