reduce costs through timely, quality care
SHPS disability management can have a powerful, positive impact on your bottom line. It involves more than paying claims – it’s about employees receiving timely, quality care that’s consistent with evidence-based medical guidelines. And it encourages a prompt return to work. Employers deploying programs with such features enjoy a higher level of benefits satisfaction among employees, lower disability costs, greater productivity and healthier employees.

an opportunity for consumer health education
When employees are out on a disability, they are acutely interested in their health. When coached to develop more positive health habits, many comply – and develop habits that serve them well in maintaining good health in the future. That’s why SHPS takes a clinical, health improvement approach to disability management. Linking disability management to SHPS care management programs provides employees with a wealth of health-related information and support at their fingertips. Once exposed to these tools and the ease of their use, SHPS’ health information resources become references for future health issues, which lead to a healthier overall lifestyle.

high-touch approach delivers better results
Best-in-class programs combine disability management with absence and leave administration, so all absences are identified and properly managed, while also offering utilization and disease management services. By providing appropriate health interventions, controlling the duration of absences, and complying with business laws and regulations, SHPS disability management consistently delivers positive results for employers and their employees.

SHPS disability management offers:

• clinical expertise. SHPS’ registered nurses offer a primary nurse model and provide specialty experience in areas like mental health, obstetrics and muscular skeletal management.
  
  
• integration with other services. SHPS can integrate disability management with other programs – including absence management, care management services or offerings from your existing partners.
  
  
• benefit coordination. SHPS disability management can coordinate benefits between claims payers, workers’ compensation or long-term disability carriers. While SHPS offers clinical management for all these types of disability, we recognize the importance of providing a seamless experience for employees whatever the configuration of benefits.
  
  
• streamlined communication. Our nurses facilitate communication between employer, payor, medical providers and employee to determine the employee’s return-to-work readiness. The goal is to return your employee to their original position – or one that is appropriately modified – safely and promptly.
  
  
• nationally recognized standards. SHPS’ clinical staff uses national benchmarks for disability duration to evaluate industry trends and accepted guidelines to establish expectations for missed work.