DISABILITYSOLUTIONS

DisabilitySolutions coordinates with your present disability administrator 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.

Return to Health. Return to Work.

Disability costs have become one of the largest expense items facing American business today. Short-term mental health disability claims can potentially be the most costly, as they often have longer durations and tend to transition to long-term disability.

At OptumHealth Behavioral Solutions, we are committed to being your strategic partner in creating a workforce that exceeds its potential. To help you combat these rising costs, we developed DisabilitySolutions — a specialty program proven to significantly reduce short-term mental health disability claims costs by stressing early intervention with your disabled employees.

Our specially trained, licensed Disability Care Advocate Team delivers:

• Early Intervention - The program stresses early intervention with your disabled employees, virtually eliminating the costly transition of short-term mental health disability claims to long-term disability benefits.
• Personalized Care - By engaging employees to be active participants in their own care and recovery, DisabilitySolutions increases compliance with treatment plans, promoting a more rapid recovery and return to work.
• Quicker Return to Work and Lowered Costs - By helping disabled employees return to work and full productivity quickly, the program is proven to significantly reduce short-term mental health disability claims costs.
• Prevention through At-Risk Identification - Proactive at-risk disability screening identifies employees at risk to claim psychiatric disability and brings them services and support before workplace functioning is impaired or costly disability claims are filed.
• Reduced “Soft Costs” from Disability Claims - By getting employees back to work sooner, DisabilitySolutions can also lower “soft costs” for replacement staff training, temporary replacement labor and overtime for employees assuming the disabled employee’s duties. These costs alone can be two to three times the cost of the employee’s salary continuation payments.¹

For More Information

Please contact your OptumHealth Account Executive or call (866) 427-6845, or e-mail us at engage@optumhealth.com.

¹ Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, January 2003; 45(1): 5-14.