The partnership delivers a fully integrated real time solution enabling end-users direct access within the FINEOS Claims system to The Medical Disability Advisor: Workplace Guidelines for Disability Durations, Fifth Edition (MDA), by Presley Reed, MD (Editor-in-Chief).

FINEOS Claims is the leading solution for disability insurance and workers' compensation claims processing and the MDA guideline is the recognized return-to-work reference leader, providing the only evidence-based disability duration guidelines built from actual and observed case data. The MDA provides expected recovery time frames for the injuries and illnesses of working people. Additionally, the companies will coordinate their efforts focusing on claims administrators in markets globally.

"Seamlessly integrating these two web services based solutions provides our customers with a vast amount of real time information, in clean, intuitive interfaces to help them manage their businesses more effectively," stated Michael Kelly, president and CEO, FINEOS Corporation. "That aspect is inherent. Creating even greater value is MDA's ability to close the loop on absences through true disability timelines and reliable information management that can be used to increase productivity and help companies protect themselves from liability."

"By partnering with FINEOS, the premier provider of core life insurance and claims management solutions, Reed Group expands its capability to help organizations manage employee absences in a non-adversarial and respectful manner," stated Presley Reed, MD, Chairman and Chief Medical Officer of Reed Group. "Claims managers who use the FINEOS Claims system, together with the MDA return-to-work guidelines, will have a powerful on-line resource that streamlines formidable amounts of evidence data and enables them to bring people back to productivity while measuring the results of their case management efforts for all involved parties."