To estimate the cost of this future care, life care planners usually conduct a survey of area home health agencies to determine the average hourly rate for the recommended type of provider, then apply this rate to the number of hours of care required per year. This paper examines the likelihood of agency-hire home health care versus private-hire home health care and their comparative costs.
When it comes to determining the reasonable charges for past or future medical care, one important part is estimating the reasonable charge for prescription medications. RPC began using the Amazon Pricing method for all reviews of eligible past pharmacy bills effective September 14, 2023, the publication date of this white paper. Learn more about the Amazon pricing method and the difference between Amazon and the survey method.
The issue of whether a healthcare service's charges are reasonable arises when a healthcare provider and payor have not agreed on a negotiated payment rate for a service. Reasonableness of healthcare charges are at issue in some personal injury cases as well as commercial litigation and can effect the economic damages in the case. [...]
This whitepaper focuses on damages a plaintiff can recover for past medical expenses in personal injury cases in Texas courts. We note damages for future medical expenses raise different issues and that discussion is outside the scope of this paper.
Considering Developing an ASC-Based Cardiac Catheterization Laboratory? Research & Planning Consultants and Health Management Associates have prepared a white paper explaining guidance on safety, efficacy, and patient selection for diagnostic and therapeutic cardiac catheterization procedures in Ambulatory Surgery Centers (ASCs) from medical professional societies and Medicare.
Oil and natural gas prices are volatile. Changes in those prices drives changes in employment and wages for workers in jobs related to exploration, development and production (EDP). Because of the danger in some EDP jobs, these workers may be plaintiffs in personal injury and wrongful death cases. Computing damages for loss of earning capacity [...]
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?
RPC’s video addresses the new direction of calculating oil worker earnings and discusses two special considerations when projecting loss of earning capacity for oil and gas workers in personal injury litigation.
On March 25, 2021, RPC filed an amicus curiae brief with the Texas Supreme Court on the case of In re Allstate Indemnity Co.
On January 29, 2021, RPC filed an amicus curiae brief with the Texas Supreme Court on the case of In re K&L Auto Crushers, LLC.