According to a recent story by Mark Anderson in the Sacramento Business Journal, The Sacramento Kings basketball team is now offering its full-time employees an unusual perk: genetic testing for ovarian and breast cancer.
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He notes that genetic testing is still so unusual as an employee benefit that the Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM), which regularly surveys hundreds of other healthcare benefit offerings, doesn’t even ask about this one yet.