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LIFE CARE PLANNING & TESTIMONY:
LIFE CARE PLANNING PROCESS
Collect data: Gathering of comprehensive medical, therapeutic, educational, vocational, biopsychosocial, and financial records (including tax returns of 3 to 5 years prior to onset of disability, all since onset of disability, and all treatment invoices)
Interview: Meeting with patient, family, and caregivers in the residential setting using a structured interview process and disability-specified questionnaires (if direct access is possible)
Consult: Meeting or otherwise consulting directly with the multidisciplinary treatment team and/or identified independent consultants regarding case-specific recommendations
Assess: Analyzing data to assess consistency of treatment recommendations to standards of care and patient-specific needs; Assess needs for additional evaluations, consultations, and treatments
Plan: Applying a consistent methodology for gathering, validating, calculating, and presenting data
Collaborate: Working within areas of competency and consulting with other relevant experts to exchange information for formulation of opinions and providing foundation within appropriate standards of care
Research: Applying an impartial, consistent, valid, and reliable approach to data collection enabling an unbiased supported foundation for case-specific plan recommendations, technologies, replacement frequencies, durations, geographically specific private-pay costs of reasonable and necessary goods and services and care options
Evaluate: Reviewing the Life Care Plan for internal consistencies, duplicative recommendations, appropriate offsets, comprehensiveness, and ease of understanding
Facilitate: Educating appropriate parties as to plan content to elicit cooperative participation in plan implementation
Testify: Providing consultation and educational service to the triers of fact as to the case-specific costs of reasonable and necessary goods and services and other long-term care needs that will allow persons with disabilities to maximize their health and independence
This page was last updated: March 6, 2012
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