Assessment services
Future Care Cost Assessment
A clinician works from the records and the examination findings and prices the care the injury will need: treatment, attendant care, equipment, home changes, and medications, year by year. Counsel and insurers order one — often called a life care plan — when settlement or benefits turn on what the future costs.
The problem
Quantum talks proceed with no priced future
Both sides agree the injury needs ongoing care and then argue from adjectives: significant, lifelong, modest. Treatment is priced in one file, attendant care in another, and equipment nowhere. Negotiation starts from competing impressions instead of one arithmetic both sides can check.
- Future care is described in adjectives with no annual figure attached.
- Care hours, treatment, and equipment are priced in separate files that never meet.
- Projections cite no recommendation, so the other side cannot test them.
What changes
What IMECore does about it
Every cost traced to a recommendation
Treatment sessions, care hours, equipment, and medications each cite the record or opinion behind them, so the other side tests the source instead of the arithmetic.
One file both sides can price against
Annual and lifetime totals are stated plainly with what is included and what is not. Negotiation starts from shared numbers even when the parties dispute the inputs.
Built on the examination record
Findings from the examinations, capacity testing, and attendant care assessment feed the costing directly instead of being re-argued for the purpose.
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FAQ
Questions people ask
What is a Future Care Cost Assessment?
A priced plan for what an injury will need going forward: treatment, personal care, equipment, home modifications, and medications, costed year by year and over a lifetime. Many counsel call it a life care plan.
Who orders one?
Usually counsel proving quantum at settlement or trial, sometimes the insurer testing that number. Either side can request one when the injuries are serious enough that future needs decide the file.
Does the assessor examine the person?
The assessment usually starts from the records and the examination findings already on file, with an interview where the referral asks for one. The costing rests on opinions in the file rather than a new diagnosis.
What goes into the total?
Care hours, treatment sessions, medications, equipment with replacement cycles, and home or vehicle changes, each with its source. Contingencies the file does not support stay out of the number.
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