Future care needs identify anticipated treatment, medication, equipment, therapy, and attendant care with expected frequency and duration. They are established by treating physician recommendations and life care planning.
Costs are projected and reduced to present value.
Alternative Names:
Future Medical Needs, Anticipated Care
Why it Matters?
The defense inquiry is foundational rather than arithmetic: which projected services were actually recommended by a treating physician as opposed to added by the life care planner. Services appearing in a plan without any corresponding physician recommendation are the most productive challenge, along with frequency assumptions and equipment replacement cycles that exceed what the record supports. Regional rather than national pricing is a further common issue.
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What is the most productive challenge to projected care?
What other assumptions warrant scrutiny?
