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Integrated Disability Management Program
Fairfax County Public Schools is dedicated to ensuring that our employees are provided with the best Integrated Disability Management (IDM) Program. The program consists of workers compensation, and short-term and long-term disability.
Liberty Mutual is the program administrator for the FCPS IDM Program.
If employees are injured on the job or believe that they may have sustained an occupational illness and/or injury, they may be eligible to receive Workers' Compensation benefits. Benefits available through workers' compensation include payment for medical expenses and prescription costs, and salary replacement if the employee is totally disabled for more than 7 calendar days as a result of the accident or illness.
If an employee is injured while at work, he or she should:
- Call Liberty Mutual immediately at 1-800-524-0740 to report the injury and/or illness. Liberty Mutual is available to take the call and provide assistance 24 hours per day, seven days per week. If there is an emergency and an employee is unable to call, someone may call for the employee.
- Notify his or her supervisor.
- Refer to the Workers' Compensation Provider Panel list. Choose a provider, and if necessary, make a doctor's appointment, then provide Liberty Mutual with the physician's name and appointment date.
- Medical expenses and prescription costs related to your approved workers’ compensation claim will be paid by Liberty Mutual. You are not responsible for paying co-payments, consultation fees, or fees for visits to an approved workers’ compensation provider panel physician or facility. If the physician or facility requires you to pay for the office visit, you should refer them to Liberty Mutual.
- If you medical condition requires specialty care, your workers’ compensation provider panel physician will make the referral to an approved specialist on the workers’ compensation specialty panel list or you must contact Liberty Mutual for the panel of specialty physicians.
- If you choose to use a physician that is not on the approved list of physicians or on the specialty list of physicians, or without the prior approval from Liberty Mutual, you will be responsible for payment of the services rendered upon the direction of the physician.
All new employees are automatically enrolled in the IDM program on the first day of the month after their hire date. No cost is associated for employees to participate in the workers' compensation plan.
If an employee sustains a personal illness or injury, FCPS will provide salary replacement through the short-term disability (STD) plan, which provides 100 percent salary replacement if the employee has been disabled for more than 20 continuous workdays. After that time, the employee will automatically be transferred to the STD Plan if he or she has been working with the program administrator and the absence is medically necessary.
While employees are receiving STD payments, FCPS continues its contribution for voluntary benefits and for the retirement plan. These benefits are paid for a maximum of five months. Employees also continue to receive retirement credit. However, employees do not accrue additional sick, personal, or annual leave while they are receiving STD benefits.
Nonworked summer months do not count for eligibility nor are benefits paid during nonworking periods, ex. spring and holiday breaks, etc.
All new employees are automatically enrolled in the IDM program on the first day of the month after their hire date. No cost is associated for employees to participate in the STD plan.
If employees are receiving payment from the short-term disability (STD) plan and the claim is approaching the end of the five-month STD period, Liberty Mutual will automatically transition the disability claim to the long-term disability (LTD) plan to determine if they are eligible to collect additional benefits.
The plan pays 66 2/3 percent of pay if employees continue to be disabled after 180 days or the end of STD payments. While employees are receiving LTD benefits, they are not required to pay the cost for LTD. The deduction automatically begins again once an employee returns to work.
Employees may continue to participate in the health insurance, dental insurance, and other optional benefit programs if the plans allow such participation. Employees must pay the full cost for these benefits.
All new employees are automatically enrolled in the IDM program on the first day of the month after their hire date.
Since FCPS employees pay the entire cost for the LTD plan, benefit payments from the plan are not taxable. The premium is deducted from the pay each pay period.
How To Report an Illness or Injury
What Happens In Case of an Emergency
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