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At-home PSA screening: how TeleClinic and Mobil Krankenkasse rethought early detection
A novel early-detection offering: the at-home PSA blood test — paid for by the health insurer, with physician video follow-up.
Early detection doesn’t fail for lack of programmes — it fails at the hurdle of the doctor’s visit
Screening programmes exist – they are taken up far too rarely. For many insured people, the trip to the practice is the decisive threshold. Telemedicine and home sampling lower that threshold dramatically: the test comes to your home, and the medical consultation happens via video.
When the programme launched, an at-home PSA blood test funded by a health insurer was uncharted territory in Germany — a groundbreaking step for digital early detection. For an offering like this to hold up, statutory-insurance-grade processing, accredited lab analytics and physician-led result communication have to interlock seamlessly. That stack is exactly what Probatix provides: kits, logistics, the lab connection to ZOTZ|KLIMAS (MVZ Düsseldorf) and structured results for the telemedicine follow-up.
What Probatix delivers for the screening programmes
Six building blocks, one contract, one infrastructure — invisible behind the partner brand.
- White-label test kits under the partner brand
- Analysis in the ISO 15189-accredited partner laboratory
- Fulfillment & logistics (shipping, returns, tracking)
- REST API with FHIR reports — results directly in the partner system
- Digital results/patient portal under the partner brand
- Quality & compliance: works to ISO 13485 & ISO 27001, GDPR
How it works for insured members
Four steps, as TeleClinic describes them on the programme page — fully digital, without a practice visit.
Order the screening
Answer a few questions – the test kit arrives at home by post. For Mobil Krankenkasse members aged 45+, every 5 years, fully paid for by the insurer.
Sample collection at home
Collect the sample at home and send it back in the pre-paid envelope – no doctor’s appointment, no waiting room.
Retrieve the test result digitally
The analysis runs in the ISO 15189-accredited laboratory ZOTZ|KLIMAS (MVZ Düsseldorf); the result is made available digitally.
Physician follow-up via video
Online follow-up consultation with experienced physicians – available around the clock, directly via TeleClinic.
From one programme to a screening family
What began as one programme is now a screening family — new insurers and new tests launch on the same infrastructure in weeks, not quarters. All programmes at teleclinic.com/screening are processed via Probatix.
PSA screening
Mobil Krankenkasse (45+) · BKK Linde (35+)
Sample type: Capillary bloodColorectal cancer screening (iFOBT)
Mobil Krankenkasse · Debeka BKK · energie-BKK · BKK Linde · vivida BKK
Sample type: Stool sampleHPV self-test
Mobil Krankenkasse (25+)
Sample type: Swab 
Why this only works with the right partner
An insurance-covered benefit forgives no shortcuts. Early detection via home test needs infrastructure that can do four things at once:
Medical reliability
Analysis in the ISO 15189-accredited laboratory ZOTZ|KLIMAS with validated pre-analytics – for capillary blood, stool samples and swabs.
Security & data protection
Statutory-insurance-grade, GDPR-compliant processing with data hosted in the EU – with no data sharing with third parties.
Transparency
Clear reports, medical interpretation via video and traceable processes from kit dispatch to result.
Speed
The infrastructure is ready: a programme can go live in two weeks – new insurers and tests launch on the same foundation.
Your early-detection programme is two weeks away.
Health insurers and telemedicine providers are claiming their diagnostics categories right now — whoever launches first defines the standard everyone else has to explain. The infrastructure is ready.