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DisabilitySolutions

DisabilitySolutions coordinates with your present disability administration to significantly reduce mental health-related short-term disability claims costs, improve productivity, and return disabled employees to work sooner and in better mental health.

A Profitable Return to Work for Everyone — Guaranteed

DisabilitySolutions is proven to significantly reduce short-term mental health disability claims costs by helping disabled employees return to work and full productivity quickly. The program also stresses early intervention with your disabled employees, virtually eliminating the costly transition of short-term mental health disability claims to long-term disability benefits.

A Collaborative Approach Shaped by Expertise

DisabilitySolutions takes a collaborative approach to disability case management — partnering with your disability administrator and all other parties who manage your behavioral health, employee assistance, and disability programs.

Our disability care advocate team provides the expertise that makes this program so effective. These specially trained experts are licensed clinicians with over 10 years of experience in behavioral health, medical case management and occupational/vocational counseling. The Advocates work with your disabled employee to develop a personal recovery program that increases treatment plan compliance and promotes a more rapid return to work.

Guaranteed Results

We are committed to being your strategic partner in creating a workforce that meets and exceeds its potential. That’s why we guarantee DisabilitySolutions will deliver a significant return on investment, with reductions in short-term mental health disability days and improved employee health and productivity.

Depression accounts for 67percent of short-term mental health disability days, surpassing other common chronic medical conditions such as heart disease and lower back pain.
(Conti D.J., Burton W.N.: “The Economic Impact of Depression in a Workplace.” Journal of Occupational Medicine; 36(9): 983-988.)