{"id":30,"date":"2021-07-31T04:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-07-31T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.asureagency.com\/blog\/?p=30"},"modified":"2021-08-06T13:58:28","modified_gmt":"2021-08-06T19:58:28","slug":"medical-exams-and-life-insurance-what-to-know","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.asureagency.com\/blog\/medical-exams-and-life-insurance-what-to-know\/","title":{"rendered":"Medical Exams and Life Insurance &#8211; What to Know"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For many, getting a medical exam for a life insurance policy can be stressful and anxiety-inducing, but the exam&nbsp;doesn&#8217;t have to be scary. The&nbsp;professionals at AS Insurance Agency serving Manchester, NH can help you navigate this process with ease.<\/p>\n<p>Underwriters require medical exams to determine the potential policy holders&#8217; health. The healthier you are, the lower your premiums are likely to be.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>During a medical exam to get life insurance, you will be asked to undergo at least two components of the&nbsp;exam, a verbal interview\/evaluation and a physical exam. &nbsp;During the verbal evaluation, you&#8217;ll be asked a series of questions such as your medical history, your family medical history and details about your lifestyle. &nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The underwriter will want to know if you smoke, drink alcohol, use any recreational drugs, take any prescribed or over-the-counter&nbsp;medications regularly&nbsp;or if you&nbsp;engage in any activities that might make you more likely to have a shorter life expectancy. &nbsp;You&#8217;ll be asked if you have any underlying medical problems or pre-existing conditions&nbsp;such as diabetes, high blood pressure, high cholesterol or other chronic illnesses. You&#8217;ll also&nbsp;be asked to take a physical exam so that a physician can listen to your heartbeat and see for themselves if you have any noticeable ailments. You will also&nbsp;be asked to undergo bloodwork testing which will look for things like your cholesterol levels, blood sugar and bloodwork can also confirm that you are a non-smoker.<\/p>\n<p>Before your exam, get plenty of rest, make sure you are hydrated and if you are a smoker, seriously consider quitting in order to make your odds of being insurable higher and your rates better!<\/p>\n<p>Get in touch with AS Insurance Agency serving Manchester, NH to learn more about your life insurance options today.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For many, getting a medical exam for a life insurance policy can be stressful and anxiety-inducing, but the exam&nbsp;doesn&#8217;t have to be scary. The&nbsp;professionals at AS Insurance Agency serving Manchester, NH can help you navigate this process with ease. Underwriters require medical exams to determine the potential policy holders&#8217; health. The healthier you are, the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[14,13],"class_list":["post-30","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life-insurance","tag-as-insurance-agency","tag-manchester-nh"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asureagency.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asureagency.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asureagency.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asureagency.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asureagency.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.asureagency.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31,"href":"https:\/\/www.asureagency.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30\/revisions\/31"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asureagency.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asureagency.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asureagency.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}