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LIFE CARE PLANNING & TESTIMONY
WHAT IS EMBODIED IN A LIFE CARE PLAN?

Areas covered in a Life Care Plan:
  • Projected Allied Health Evaluations
  • Projected Allied Health Therapies
  • Non-Medical Diagnostic/Educational Testing
  • Wheelchair/Mobility Needs
  • Wheelchair Accessories/Maintenance
  • Orthotic/Prosthetic Needs
  • Orthopedic Equipment Needs
  • Durable Medical Items
  • Aids for Independent Function
  • Disposable Supplies
  • Medications
  • Home Care Needs
  • Facility Care
  • Routine Medical Care
  • Transportation
  • Architectural Renovations for Barrier-Free Residential Environment
  • Health and Strength Maintenance
  • Acute Medical Intervention
  • Surgical Intervention
  • Potential Complications
  • Vocational Rehabilitation Planning
  • Loss-of-Earning Capacity Assessment
Evidentiary support for the Life Care Plan is provided in a narrative format with detailed tables for each recommendation supplemented with summary tables annualizing costs and range of costs through the patient's normal life expectancy, unless credible support for a less than normal life expectancy is presented. Life Care Plan recommendations are addressed to maximize the patient's health and independence and minimize potential complications as follows:

  • Reasonable and necessary goods and services arising as a direct, secondary, or tertiary consequence of a specific diagnosis and/or event
  • Individualized recommendations designated by economic areas for ease of reduction to present value by a qualified professional
  • Date and age each recommendation will be initiated and suspended
  • Purpose, consumption rates, and replacement frequencies for  each recommendation (prescribing professional and/or published peer-reviewed support for each recommendation)
  • Proposed vendors from whom goods and services may be obtained
  • Sources for recommendation costs
  • Private-pay and fee-scheduled acquisition and replacement cost calculations (local, regional, and or national private-pay rates) as dictated by respective venues
  • Offset calculations for usual and customary purchases typically acquired from earnings (if loss-of-earning capacity calculations are presented as additional damages) as well as expenditures for preexisting and/or unrelated conditions
  • Qualifying comments for extended support for recommendations and cost calculations
  • Rehabilitation plan costs
  • Loss-of-earning capacity assessment
  • Reduction in labor force participation/worklife expectancy
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