Will Help Customers Reduce Paperwork and Administrative Burden and
Complements Fiserv Health's Short-Term Disability Product
WAUSAU, Wis.--(Business Wire)--
Fiserv Health announced it is now offering Family and Medical
Leave Act (FMLA) administration services. The services include
administration of federal and state family and medical leave acts as
well as employer-specific family and medical leave policies.
"Given that two-thirds of FMLA occurrences are concurrent with
short-term disability, we believe our customers will benefit having
one company administering both short-term disability and FMLA and
helping them reduce the administrative burden and excess paperwork,"
said Steve Goethel, vice president of Product Management for Fiserv
Health, a business unit of UnitedHealthcare, a UnitedHealth Group
(NYSE:UNH) company.
Administrative responsibilities with FMLA include the
determination of eligibility and qualifying events, notification of
determinations to employees and employers and the concurrent tracking
of time taken against available time for all applicable leaves.
Reporting is also provided for FMLA-only and combined FMLA and
disability services.
"Our system enables us to stay up to date on new federal and state
leave laws, which ensures that our customers are in compliance with
leave laws," Goethel said. "We also assist our customers in
controlling absences by decreasing FMLA abuse. In addition, the
state-of-the-art Web-based system we use simplifies the required
record keeping process, especially for intermittent leaves."
About Fiserv Health
Fiserv Health provides a full array of integrated health plan
management, claims processing and administration services for
self-funded medical, dental, vision and disability plans. Fiserv
Health also offers care management through Avidyn Health and pharmacy
benefits management through Innoviant Prescription Benefits
Administration. In January 2008, Fiserv Health joined
UnitedHealthcare, one of America's largest health care companies. Find
out more at www.fiservhealth.com.
About UnitedHealthcare
UnitedHealthcare (www.unitedhealthcare.com) provides a full
spectrum of consumer-oriented health benefit plans and services. The
company organizes access to quality, affordable health care services
on behalf of more than 25 million individual consumers, contracting
directly with more than 560,000 physicians and care professionals and
4,800 hospitals nationwide to offer them broad, convenient access to
services nationwide. UnitedHealthcare is one of the businesses of
UnitedHealth Group (NYSE:UNH), a diversified Fortune 50 health and
well-being company.
Fiserv Health
Susan Ford-Hoffert, VP-Communications, 715-841-6613
Susan.ford-hoffert@fiserv.com
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