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Traumatic Brain Injuries may be perhaps the most understated injury or illness in America. Over 1.5 million people receive a brain injury every year, and of those, over 235,000 require hospitalization in order to treat those injuries.
Regardless of the type of injury, whether its closed or open, whether it’s a frontal lobe injury or its traumatic enough to involve the cerebral cortex, surviving and recovering from any level of TBI requires specialized care and in many cases, constant and continual supervision. The costs for such care are astronomical.
In 2004, each day spent in the hospital by a TBI patient cost on average of $4500. Even though fewer days were spent in the hospital on a per patient basis, the cost for 2004 for TBI hospitalizations alone exceeded $190 million. And that doesn’t even begin to cover the costs incurred after hospitalization. Medications, doctors visits, therapy, specialized equipment, nursing care, and in many cases, institutionalization so the patient can receive the level of care they require on a daily basis. These are only some of the out-of-pocket costs. Further economic losses include the lost wages and benefits from the injured person’s employment. Even these do not account for the human losses, the losses of a loved one’s company, society and companionship. What is one extra day worth? How about the value of a lost life for the remainder of a loved one’s life time? The human losses are the greatest losses!
For the families of these patients, it becomes a continual challenge simply to keep up with the day to day needs of the patient, let alone how to cover the costs for all these different things. Insurance, co-pays, Medicaid, Medicare, who pays, who can pay, who’s supposed to pay. The wife of a man who is injured in a car accident has more than enough to try to do in her life than figure out who is supposed to receive payment from what source. Doctors and hospitals are overworked and overburdened. Many times they are hard pressed to simply keep up with the flow of patients through their doors.
So how can the average person expect to deal with everything that’s going on without being hounded to death by bill collectors? Who knows how all this is supposed to work? How can the families of victims of such a life-changing event ever hope to recover and rebuild their lives without becoming victims themselves of a system that is overburdened at best?
That’s where professionals in the legal system who specialize in this type of injury come into play. Because of the massive complexities involved, the next call a responsible party for a traumatic injury victim should make after the patient is stabilized is to an attorney who specializes in TBI cases.
Not only can the attorney help guide the families of TBI patients through the confusing myriads of paperwork and payment arrangements, but they can also advocate for the patient. These attorneys know how all of these processes work, sometimes from the inside out, and have taken the initiative many times so that a patient not only gets the treatment which is minimal, but also that they can get all treatments which are recommended.
Fighting for the rights of the patient, and protecting the rights of the patients families are what Traumatic Brain Injury Attorney’s specialize in. If you have a loved one who is a victim of a traumatic brain injury, and you have no legal representation, then now is the time to call. Toll Free Phone Number 1-877-220-0550.
