A life care plan is a comprehensive, clinically supported projection of the future care an injured person is likely to need and what that care will cost. These articles cover methodology, timing, scope, and the role of specialists in building a plan.
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A life care plan is not a substitute for a treating physician's judgment. It is a synthesis of it. Here is how a defensible plan should use treating and consulting physicians, and where the CLCP's own methodology takes over.
Dr. Andrew Tisser, DO MBA CPE CLCP & Gina Marra, RN LCSW LNC CLCP ·
Most life care plans are not attacked on their bottom-line number. They are attacked on how that number was built. Here are the vulnerabilities defense counsel actually target, and how the methodology behind a plan should be built to withstand them.
Gina Marra, RN LCSW LNC CLCP & Dr. Andrew Tisser, DO MBA CPE CLCP ·
Whether you are evaluating the opposing side's life care plan or having your own reviewed before deposition, a critique and a rebuttal are asking different questions. Here is what a rigorous review of either document should actually examine.
Gina Marra, RN LCSW LNC CLCP & Dr. Andrew Tisser, DO MBA CPE CLCP ·
A medical cost projection and a life care plan answer different questions. The difference is scope, not case value. Here is how to select the appropriate level of analysis before the engagement begins.
Dr. Andrew Tisser, DO MBA CPE CLCP & Gina Marra, RN LCSW LNC CLCP ·
Life care planning standards contemplate collaboration with qualified professionals when recommendations extend beyond the planner's scope. Here is what that means for specialist-supported life care plans.
Dr. Andrew Tisser, DO MBA CPE CLCP ·
Real catastrophic care is delivered by a team of clinicians, not one person. So why are so many life care plans still built by a single planner working alone? This is the thinking behind the Case Veritas model.
Dr. Andrew Tisser, DO MBA CPE CLCP & Gina Marra, RN LCSW LNC CLCP ·
Gathering opinions from several specialists is not the same as producing an integrated life care plan. The difference is reconciliation, and it is what determines whether a plan holds together under scrutiny.
Dr. Andrew Tisser, DO MBA CPE CLCP & Gina Marra, RN LCSW LNC CLCP ·
A defensible life care plan establishes what a person will clinically need before it assigns a single dollar figure. Reverse that order and the whole plan becomes vulnerable.
Dr. Andrew Tisser, DO MBA CPE CLCP & Gina Marra, RN LCSW LNC CLCP ·
It is tempting to assume a bigger life care plan is a better one for the plaintiff. In front of a skeptical defense expert and jury, the opposite is often true.
Dr. Andrew Tisser, DO MBA CPE CLCP & Gina Marra, RN LCSW LNC CLCP ·
A great physical therapist and a great life care planner are not the same thing. Here is what the CLCP credential adds when a specialty clinician also holds it, and why that combination changes a plan.
Dr. Andrew Tisser, DO MBA CPE CLCP & Gina Marra, RN LCSW LNC CLCP ·
A life care plan is a comprehensive, dynamic document that projects the future medical and non-medical needs of a catastrophically injured person, with costs. Here is what it is, what it includes, and when your case needs one.
Dr. Andrew Tisser, DO MBA CPE CLCP & Gina Marra, RN LCSW LNC CLCP ·
Not every injury case needs a life care plan, and commissioning one too early or too late both carry costs. Here is how to decide whether a case warrants a formal life care plan and when to build it.
Dr. Andrew Tisser, DO MBA CPE CLCP & Gina Marra, RN LCSW LNC CLCP ·
A defensible life care plan is built through a disciplined methodology that ties every projected need to the medical evidence and every cost to a documented source. Here is how a comprehensive, multidisciplinary plan comes together.
Dr. Andrew Tisser, DO MBA CPE CLCP & Gina Marra, RN LCSW LNC CLCP ·
Catastrophic injury and nursing home cases produce the largest and most contested future-care claims in plaintiff practice. A well-built life care plan is often what separates a full-value recovery from an undervalued settlement.
Dr. Andrew Tisser, DO MBA CPE CLCP & Gina Marra, RN LCSW LNC CLCP ·
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