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Planning future care needs for a catastrophic burn or electrical injury can be a daunting task for many life care planners due to inexperience with such complicated injuries. A plan should always be developed in collaboration with an experienced burn/reconstructive surgeon.
Care Plans for Life first began care planning with a focus on burn-related injuries due to Dr. Rimmer’s burn injury research and extensive experience in working with burn victims and healthcare providers who treat burn patients on a national level. Over the past 17 years, we have helped numerous plaintiff and defense attorneys determine the injury-related needs and costs for burn, electrical, and amputation victims across the United States.
In order to best determine patient needs, it is critical to work with an experienced care planning team and physician who are familiar with the immediate and long-term complications associated with electrical burn injury. Details such as the type of electrical injury sustained and the voltage and current can be essential information in constructing an evaluee’s life care plan.
Traumatic brain injury is a major cause of disability in the United States. The most recent statistics indicate that there are close to 3 million TBI ER visits/hospitalizations every year. Even so, it is believed that many brain injuries go undiagnosed. Often the patient or patient’s family notice that “something isn’t right,” but they can’t tell exactly what the problem is. The Life Care Planners at Care Plans for Life are experienced in interacting with the team of medical professionals, including Rehabilitation Physicians, Neurologists, and Neuropsychologists to properly identify the needs associated with brain injury, thus assuring that all of the proper resources are made available to care for the patient’s lifelong needs.
Damage sustained to any part of the spinal cord can result in permanent changes to various body functions, such as sensation and strength. Documenting the spinal cord injury type and severity is instrumental in communicating the associated patient complications and medical care needs.
At times, victims of catastrophic injury must endure the amputation of limb(s), toes, or fingers. This is required to remove necrotic tissue and or diminish pain and disease spread. It can be a life-changing experience that affects an individual’s ability to move, work, interact with others or maintain their independence, resulting in physiological, psycho/social, and emotional disability. In addition to estimating medical-related and home care costs for amputees, designating your case to Care Plans for Life will ensure their psychological needs and associated treatment costs are conveyed as well.
Past medical bill reviews provide validation the billed care was related to a specific incident or injury and are usual, customary, and reasonable (UCR).
An MSA is developed to protect Medicare’s interest when a client becomes permanently disabled due to an injury or illness. Due to the injury/illness or age, the person with a permanent disability or within a certain time period will become a Medicare beneficiary. An MSA is determined on a case-by-case basis.
Since 2004, Care Plans for Life has assisted catastrophically injured adult and pediatric patients by documenting their injury-related needs on a national level.
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