| LIFE CARE PLANNING
& TESTIMONY
What is Embodied in a Life Care Plan?
Areas Covered in a Life Care Plan:
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Projected Allied Health Evaluations |
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Home Care Needs |
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Projected Allied Health Therapies |
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Facility Care |
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Non-Medical Diagnostic/Educational
Testing |
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Routine Future Medical Care |
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Wheelchair/Mobility Needs |
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Transportation |
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Wheelchair Accessories/Maintenance |
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Architectural Renovations for
Barrier-Free Residential Environment |
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Orthotic/Prosthetic Needs |
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Health and Strength Maintenance |
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Orthopedic Equipment Needs |
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Acute Medical Intervention |
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Durable Medical Items |
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Surgical Intervention |
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Aids for Independent Function |
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Potential Complications |
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Disposable Supplies |
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Vocational Rehabilitation Planning |
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Medications |
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Loss-of-Earning Capacity Assessment
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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
- Foundation 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/or 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 pre-existing and/or unrelated conditions
- Qualifying comments for extended support for recommendations
and cost calculations
- Rehabilitation Plan costs
- Loss of access to labor market
- Reduction in placeability opportunity
- Loss-of-Earning Capacity Assessment
- Reduction in labor force participation/worklife expectancy
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