Is there future medical care involved?  Is there a permanent shift of burden?  These things may equate to the need for an MSA (Medicare Set Aside).  Use this equation to determine if an MSA is necessary in your legal case.
FCC + PBS = MSA

The requirement is to protect Medicare’s interest (per SCHIP Section 111)
This can be accomplished formally or informally.  A more formal protection of Medicare’s interest would be in the form of an MSA report.

MSA (where FCC = Future Cost of Care; PBS = Permanent Burden Shift, and MSA …

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There are many reasons one might consider the services of a professional care manager.  Nurse care managers like myself are often called in when medical concerns become an issue.  Other times a fall might prompt our assistance.  I have listed below the top ten reasons for referral.  Feel free to add your own.

You are concerned about your loved one’s safety in the home.
Medication and treatment plans are confusing.
You are overwhelmed by the demands of caregiving.
Your loved one has an unexplained weight loss that is not …

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A quadriplegic man who won a court case allowing him to starve himself to death died last month in the nursing home in which he was a resident. He was 49 years old.
Christian Rossiter was a resident of the Brightwater Care Group nursing facility in Marangaroo, a suburb of Perth, Western Australia. Admitted in November 2008, Mr. Rossiter became a quadriplegic as a result of three serious injuries. The first of these occurred in 1988 when he fell 100 feet from an apartment from which he suffered head …

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The Bone and Joint Decade is, like most other preventive awareness activities, spirited towards educating the public and the medical world on the diagnoses, treatment, and prevention of bone and joint disease.  Their goal is to raise money for research, prevention, and treatment modalities that affect millions worldwide every year.  In the United States, there’s approximately $254 million spent on bone and joint diseases alone each year.
There website says it best……
Across the world, musculoskeletal conditions affect hundreds of millions of people, at a huge cost to …