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Medical Records Retrieval Texas - Choice Legal has been providing vital legal support services to Insurance companies and Plaintiff firms for 30 years. We retrieve medical and other types of records nationwide. Our online retrieval system provides the most secure access in the industry.
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Choice Legal
2601 East 4th Avenue
Tampa, FL 33605
855-875-8550
http://choicelegal.com/
Suggestion for Requesting and Assessing Medical Records
Whether your practice involves medical malpractice, personal injury, harmful tort or
even household law you will eventually in time have the need to demand medical
records.
The majority of states have a section in the Rules of Civil Procedure covering specifics of
demand format, time to respond and charges for medical billing. Make sure to check
your state code prior to preparing a request for clinical records.
Below are some ideas for attorneys and paralegals who will require medical records in
order to corroborate a claim and answer discovery with production of clinical records.
Talk to the client to obtain as full a case history as possible. If they have billing records
copy then you should preserve those as they will consist of essential contact details for
healthcare companies.
Bear in mind billing and medical records may not be maintained at the same center and
a different demand for each is required.
Acquire the drug store billing records prior to and subsequent to the incident in
question. Have the potential client bring these for the preliminary meeting. They will
consist of a thumbnail sketch of the client's healthcare prior to the event in question,
identify prescribing/healthcare service providers along with document medicine taken
(such as discomfort medicine) to help in supporting damages.
Lots of clinical records, especially nursing files are multiple pages with dates, signatures
just on one page. It is suggested you ask for several pages be stapled in order, this is
crucial for developing dates/times and service providers in a chronological order.
Frequently treatment and medications records are double-sided with initials/signatures
and discuss the contrary side. Be sure to request double sided copies, or if single sided
copies, request they be stapled together. These records could include important details
in a case.
As in any case of clinical neglect or malpractice, the medical records are extremely
crucial in proving the truths revealing neglect, causation, and damages.
Get ALL of the nursing home, center, immediate care, emergency clinic, ambulance,
visiting nurse, occupational therapy, speech therapy, physical treatment and respiratory
therapy records and ALL doctor and healthcare facility records.
In some cases immediate care, ambulatory care centers, emergency rooms, ambulances
nursing and different therapy services, and so on, are independent service providers.
Develop with the healthcare facility or institution exactly what care is offered by
independent professionals and where to resolve medical records requests to guarantee
you are buying ALL of the offered medical records.
Even if all of the readily available clinical records are not part of the supposed event and
thus are not subject to the clinical testimonial, they need to still be gotten as reference
material.
The records just prior to and after a claimed incident are particularly crucial in.
providing documents as to the individual's medical condition, the degree of the alleged
injuries along with a sign of any probable lasting problems that could now exist.
Trick Point: Information is often obtained from relatively obscure records, for this
reason the need for ALL of the medical records.
Medical Records Retrieval Texas
About Choice Legal
ChoiceLegal is a leading provider of Nationwide record retrieval services for
Insurance Defense and Plaintiff firms. Our experts collect records using industry
leading technology, offering accurate and fast service for our clients. We offer
easy to use online systems and paperless solutions for secure and permanent
access to your records from our records repository for as long as you need them.
Providing vital legal support services for 30 years to Insurance companies and law
firms, ChoiceLegal has the experience and customer service expertise to
streamline the discovery process. We handle the entire record retrieval process
for you. Free up your staff to handle more important case-related activities and
turn the record retrieval hassle into a billable expense.
New orders may be placed on-line at ChoiceLegal.com, e-mailed, faxed, or
telephoned. We take it from there, all the way through to delivering your records
in bound and labeled sets, optional CDs, and then post them on our HIPAA-
compliant secure website. Let us help you eliminate time delays in collecting
records, while at the same time, improving the accuracy of the records you
receive.
ChoiceLegal uses the most advanced technology to assist in fast and efficient
medical records retrieval. Our platform automates the entire process of Subpoena
and Notice preparation and service, to tracking each assignment through to
completion. Clients benefit from our online status access, new order entry, and
secure online records repository.
Authorizations can be uploaded to our site from your desk, so we can get it in the
providers hand within 24 hours and get started retrieving your records.
Subpoena and Notice preparation
Serve Subpoenas
Deliver Authorizaions
Advance custodial fees
Retrieval of Records
All types of records
X-ray and film duplication
Upload to Secure Online System
Hard Copies Available
Client Views/Prints/Saves
Contact Information
Choice Legal
2601 East 4th Avenue
Tampa, FL 33605
855-875-8550
http://choicelegal.com/
