Healthcare Management Associates (HMA) and Research and Planning Consultants (RPC) are pleased to announce their client has received CON Board approval for Alabama’s first single-specialty, cardiac and vascular ambulatory surgery center.
When appropriate and possible, a vocational expert uses vocational tests to measure an individual’s interests, abilities, and aptitudes. In this blog, we will discuss who administers vocational tests, how they are administered, and what type of tests are used.
Some life care planners and vocational consultants rely on data from self-administered questionnaires completed by plaintiffs in personal injury litigation. Questions often arise about the validity and reliability of these data. In this blog post, we discuss a few self-administered questionnaires providers commonly use to assess psychological and neurocognitive conditions and their limitations.
Healthcare data on hospitals, physicians and other providers, properly analyzed, help litigators understand the economics and market dynamics of the healthcare sector. The information can establish causation and damages in a wide range of cases.
RPC has prepared a sample report explaining how we determine the maximum reasonable charges for past medical services and how we determine the range of reasonable value of past medical services.
When choosing damages experts for a qui tam case, it may help to understand the skill sets required to calculate damages and to testify at the intersection of medical, legal, and analytical issues. This blog will discuss the experience needed.
RPC provides Certificate of Need (CON) and litigation support services to healthcare providers and attorneys nationally.
A Look Back at RPC in 2021 and Forward to 2022 - From RPC President, Ronald T. Luke, JD, PhD
Reasonable Assumptions About Future Employment in Oil and Gas Industries. Will certain jobs in the oil and gas industry exist in the future in a pre-injury scenario?
This white paper, authored by Dr. Brian Piper, details volatility in price, rigs, production jobs and median earnings in the oil and gas field between 2000 and 2022, and the methods that should be used to calculate base wages and wage growth. The paper is applicable to injured parties working in drilling, extraction and [...]