Imagine the scenario. Your client suffers a devastating injury in a car accident someone else caused, and you are tasked with negotiating an insurance settlement or taking the case to trial to win a damages award. The insurance representative follows the typical script by declaring, “It’s just a few broken bones” or “The head and back trauma is not that bad.” The only way you can refute these assertions is with full knowledge about the gravity of your client’s injuries so you can determine a suitable settlement in negotiations. Or if those break down, to convince a jury of your client’s true monetary needs.
The National Record Retrieval offers lawyers the advantage of quick access to the medical records they need, with the added advantage of not having to wade through volumes of information that are not applicable to a case. Lawyers can pick and choose which records they need, cutting down on the time it takes to build a case, which makes the service cost-effective. So, how does it work?
Lawyers and their staff could obtain permission from clients to obtain their medical records, but contacting doctors’ offices individually, waiting, sorting, and organizing these records can be a colossal headache and a waste of valuable time.
Our interactive site makes ordering records easy. A client’s information includes patient data, provider’s notes, relief forms, subpoenas, and other valuable documentation.
If the provider is not in our system, lawyers can fill out a simple form to request that the records be input so they can assess a wide variety of information to determine the viability of the case, early strategies, and to prepare for insurance company negotiations. Once an order for medical records is submitted to the National Record Retrieval, our dedicated professionals keep attorneys informed about the case’s status and time-stamp the order date so your firm has a record of requests for information in the order they are submitted.
What does an attorney have to do to get a physician to release a client’s medical records? Nothing. National Record Retrieval contacts medical providers with carefully prepared requests for patient records. We stay in touch with providers to ensure records are transmitted, remitting payment as necessary, and make them available from our online portal to our attorney clients—even from a mobile device—in a timely manner.
Medical records are also stored securely according to HIPAA Compliance, but also using 256-bit encryption, which is four times the security of online banking.
Our advanced technology can also integrate with many attorney offices’ case management systems, making it easier to retrieve, organize, and store records for negotiations and trials.
Law firms that rely on medical data to build, negotiate, and settle cases can assign staff members to deal with doctors’ offices individually, but why? Our medical records retrieval system saves time and money because we get them for you after lawyers submit an easy to fill out order form. We separate the records you want from those that you do not need, and we encrypt each page so there is no risk of hacking.
If you are ready to streamline your law office procedures and stop paying for the countless hours staff members spend gathering clients’ medical records, call now to learn more about the National Record Retrieval advantage.
