| LIFE CARE PLANNING
& TESTIMONY
Benefits of Life Care Planning
Patients, families and caregivers to anticipate
and acquire reasonable and necessary goods and services.
- Providing counseling, educational and case management
support
- Coordinating and facilitating resources for acquisition
of goods and services
- Curtailing onset of complications
Treatment teams to coordinate multidisciplinary
services on a scheduled basis.
- Identifying and documenting treatment resources
- Coordinating interdisciplinary direction
- Providing a plan for ongoing interdisciplinary treatment
and follow up
- Outlining financial resources for selecting treatment
options
Trust administrators to control fund distribution
to meet life-long care needs.
- Identifying scheduled needs, vendors and associated costs
as age and disability combine
- Documenting and justifying necessary expenditure revisions
- Controlling expenditures for acquisition of appropriate
goods and services
- Providing foundation for managing Medicare Set-Aside
Trust administration
Claims examiners to more accurately identify
covered services and reserve for short- and long-term claims
coverage.
- Enhancing the accuracy of setting short- and long-term
reserves
- Enhancing the accuracy of recovery projections
- Enhancing the accuracy of identifying and funding associated
claims costs
- Providing individual and disability-specific information
- Providing a plan for ongoing case management
- Providing documented foundation for Medicare Set-Aside
Trusts
Attorneys to more accurately identify and
present the exten of damages arising as a consequence of the
condition(s) in question.
- Providing litigation consultation specific to settlement
offers and/or demands
- Providing litigation consultation specific to witness
preparation and/or cross examinations
- Presenting damage issues through a single witness in
lieu of multiple experts
- Identifying the extent of damages through a standardized
process that includes documented foundation
- Documenting "necessary" versus "elective"
technologies and services
- Coordinating and/or facilitating "A Day-in-the-Life"
video
- Providing documented foundation for Medicare Set-Aside
Trusts
Economists to obtain current private-pay
values of damages (disability-related expenses and loss-of-earning
capacity) for purposes of reduction to present value.
- Presenting current values for costs of specific damage
issues (disability-related expenses and loss-of-earning
capacity)
- Presenting documentation of life issues created by or
as a consequence of onset of disability (hedonics, consortium,
etc.)
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