Combining health coverage with disability coverage may cut an employer’s absence rate 20%.
CIGNA Corp., Philadelphia (NYSE:CI), has published that figure in a summary of results from an analysis of its 2009 claims.
Analysts conducted the study by creating two study populations matched for variables such as age, gender, industry, disability benefit type and previous disability.
The individuals in one group had integrated health and disability from CIGNA, and the individuals in the other group did not.