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Integrated short-term disability management

July 2010

Our integrated approach to short-term disability management means better results for your clients! By closely connecting short-term disability with health plan programs, employers can be sure that employees are referred to programs designed to help them get well, stay well and return to work faster. Plus, integration of short-term disability with health plans makes sense since medical bills for short-term disability claims are paid with health plan dollars. 

According to an October 2008 article in Business Insurance, “Disability and medical programs that are integrated have been shown to result in shorter-duration leaves, quicker return-to-work rates and fewer employees on short-term disability moving to long-term disability.”

How HealthPartners short-term disability management program can help:

• Fewer employee absences due to centralized intake and comprehensive tracking
• Assurance that the length of disability is appropriate for the condition and job
• Fair and equal treatment of all employees
• Compliance with state and federal leave laws as well as employer leave policies
• Reduction of direct and indirect costs associated with unplanned employee absence
• Integration with health plan programs
• Data comparison with other similar organizations (benchmarking)

Learn more about HealthPartners short-term disability management  programs.