Georgia has published its 2025 State Medical Facilities Plan with 2025 need determinations and CON review schedule. There are several opportunities for services including obstetrical bed services, inpatient rehabilitation services, ambulatory surgery centers, neonatal intermediate and intensive care services, nursing home services, and home health agencies.
At RPC, we offer a multi-disciplinary team of experts who provide attorneys and their clients with comprehensive analysis of economic damages in truck and auto collision cases. Rather than finding multiple experts for the damages part of the case, RPC offers you a single source.
As certified life care planners, we review and critique life care plans prepared for plaintiffs in personal injury litigation. To do this, we apply the Standards of Practice for Life Care Planners, Consensus and Majority Statements, and other best practices that guide the life care planning process. The same standards apply to life care plan reports prepared for defendants, subject to limitations on data available to defendant's life care planners. In this blog, we discuss five ways in which plaintiff life care plans often violate these standards. In this blog, we discuss five common ways in which plaintiff life care plans often violate these standards. The same standards apply to life care plan reports prepared for defendants, subject to limitations on data available to defendant's life care planners.
The North Carolina State Health Coordinating Council (SHCC) has published its draft 2026 State Medical Facilities Plan (SMFP) and all summer petitions and comments have been received. Here's what you need to know about the recent draft and what to expect moving forward.
Whether you operate a physician practice or clinic, imaging center, ambulatory surgery center (ASC), acute care hospital, or all of the above, it is important to understand how your billed charges compare to the charges of other similar providers in your area. In this blog, we discuss five reasons it is increasingly crucial to know how your charges compare to standard benchmarks.
RPC is pleased to announce that Kim Pyburn, RN, BSN, LNCC, a certified nurse life care planner, and legal nurse consultant has relocated to Nashville, making RPC’s expert services more accessible to Tennessee attorneys and their clients. RPC life care planners are members of a team of professionals. Our full-time staff include life care planners, economists, accountants, and vocational consultants who have been accepted as testifying experts in state and federal courts.
Medicare funding for end-of-life home healthcare is essential for supporting homebound adults who need skilled care. A recent study found Medicare Advantage (MA) enrollees tend to receive fewer home health services and for a shorter duration compared to those in traditional Medicare (TM). This is particularly true for racial and ethnic minority patients. In this blog, we break down what this research means for Certificate of Need (CON) applications, and how RPC uses Medicare data to find underserved populations, even when MA data is limited.
There are several reasons why the calculation of post-injury earning capacity in personal injury cases may differ from Social Security’s disability determination. Six of the biggest reasons are discussed in this blog
Healthcare litigation often involves the analysis of large and complex databases of medical and billing records. These databases can contain valuable information relevant to the legal theory of the case - from data elements one might expect such as volume of patients and cost of services to less obvious but still potentially useful records such as the dates and times of patient appointments or the severity of the injury. In this blog, we will discuss how RPC can analyze large and complex databases of medical and billing records.
Loss of earning capacity can be a major element of damages requiring the plaintiff and the defendant to retain vocational experts. By asking vocational experts the right questions, attorneys can expose weaknesses in their reports and opinions. Here are seven key questions to ask your vocational expert or an opposing vocational expert, and what you may learn from the answers.