title: Rehabilitation and insurance relationships.
abstract: The ultimate goal of the health care process is to restore an individual to a maximal level of function within the constraints of the existing pathology. It is unfortunate, however, that this potential is often underestimated so that the individual is deprived of reintegration in society. Rehabilitation is the unfinished business of medicine. Reasonable goals need to be identified and clear cost benefit projections need to be established regarding any intervention. To decrease an individual's dependency means that the lifetime cost of care of the individual decreases dramatically. Physical independence and cognitive competency reestablish for the patient optimal levels of health care that need to be facilitated, and involve integrated, innovative insurance liaisons to assure achieving this goal.
authors.affiliation: San Francisco General Hospital.
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Berrol
mesh_terms: D003363:Cost Control; D006233:Persons with Disabilities / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence / Q000534:rehabilitation*; D006801:Humans; D007345:Insurance Claim Review / Q000191:economics; D007348:Insurance, Health; D009626:Terminology as Topic; D014481:United States; D014944:World Health Organization