For examining physicians
What handing off the reading changes, what it cannot change, and the four questions that separate vendors.
An examining physician gets paid for two things: the examination and the opinion. The hours spent paginating a banker's box of PDFs earn nothing and prove nothing, yet on a large file they can outnumber the hours of actual medical work. That arithmetic is why record review is increasingly outsourced, and why the decision deserves more thought than picking the cheapest vendor.
A good review service hands you the record already organized: one medical chronology, every accessible page read and accounted for, with prior complaints, treatment gaps, and imaging findings identified where they occur. What it cannot do is replace your judgment. You remain independently responsible for deciding how much of the underlying source material your own opinions require you to review. The right way to think about a chronology is as an organized map of the complete record, so the reading you do yourself goes where your professional judgment requires it.
Four questions separate the field. Who actually reads the records? At MedChrona, the answer is clinicians based in North America, and the company was founded by a practicing physician. Is every accessible page read, or is the record sampled? Sampling is where the missed prior complaint lives. How do the records move? If the answer involves email, keep looking; records should travel only through a secure, HIPAA-supported portal. And what does it cost before you commit? Published per-page rates beat opaque hourly quotes, because you can compute the invoice yourself before uploading a single page.
At $0.20 per page, a 2,000-page file costs $400 to have fully read, organized, and summarized. Reading those pages yourself at even a modest pace consumes the better part of two working days. If your examination and report time bills at expert rates, the outsourced review pays for itself on the first case, and the practice takes on more examinations without more nights at the desk.
Register once and your organization gets a secure workspace the same business day. Upload the records; most cases are counted and priced the same business day, and payment starts the review with a committed completion date. Standard turnaround is six to ten business days, with rush options when the exam date demands it. The finished chronology arrives as a clean PDF you can work from during the examination and cite while you write. The full pricing is published here, and the estimator will price your current case in about a minute.
Register once. Upload. Most cases are counted and priced the same business day.
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