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GEORGIA CERTIFICATE OF MERIT RECORD REVIEW

The affidavit files with the complaint. There is no discovery to fix it later.

Georgia certificate of merit record review services prepare the page-cited record an expert reads before swearing the affidavit O.C.G.A. §9-11-9.1 requires. Every encounter and finding is indexed to its source page, so the negligent act and the factual basis the affidavit has to specify rest on a file that has actually been read.

Click any row → the source page it cites
Record review · Case #IME-4812 documented
Adams, Timothy · pre-filing record set
342 pp / 2 packets received logged
11 duplicate pages removed free
p.140 — wrong patient quarantined
Pages 342 Documents 27 Cited 100%

The affidavit has to name an act and a factual basis.

We do not build for a case type until we can name the standard that defines a correct output and the person who grades the file against it. In merit screening, both are written into the rule itself.

The standard and the referee
The rulebook
  • O.C.G.A. §9-11-9.1(a), which requires an affidavit of an expert competent to testify, filed with the complaint, setting forth specifically at least one negligent act or omission and the factual basis for each such claim
  • O.C.G.A. §9-11-9.1(b), the narrow exception where the period of limitation will expire within ten days of filing, which buys forty-five days rather than removing the requirement
  • O.C.G.A. §24-7-702(c), which governs who is competent to give expert testimony on the standard of care
  • O.C.G.A. §9-11-9.1(e), which requires the defendant to raise a defect by motion with the answer or waive it
The referee
  • The trial court on a motion to dismiss for failure to state a claim, the express consequence the statute names
  • The Georgia appellate courts, which have read the specificity requirement strictly
  • The affiant, an expert competent to testify, who has to identify the act and the facts behind it under oath
Expert hours reading the chart before a complaint can be filed at all Flat 10¢/page here, duplicates free
Record review · Case #IME-4812 cited 100%
Packet342 pp / 2 packets · 11 deduplicatedlogged
Encounter chronologyBuilt from the produced recordcited
Findings and imagingEach result at its source pagecited
Records referenced, not producedNamed in the chart, absent from the fileflagged
Review delivered · cited 100% · no negligence opinion offered
How it works

3 steps between the records and the affidavit.

01

Send the record set

Hospital charts, office notes, imaging and operative reports, nursing records and billing, in any format.

02

We return the review, page-cited

The encounter chronology, findings and documented course of treatment, each line citing the page it came from, with referenced-but-absent records flagged.

03

Your expert swears the affidavit

The negligent act or omission and the factual basis §9-11-9.1(a) requires are the expert's, sworn by the expert, and filing is counsel's decision.

The boundary, in writing

A record review, never a sworn affidavit.

We index and cite what the record documents. We do not identify a negligent act or omission, assess the standard of care, or draft or swear an affidavit under §9-11-9.1. The statute requires an expert competent to testify, and the specificity it demands is theirs to supply under oath.

Subsection (b) is a forty-five day reprieve, not an exemption, and it only reaches complaints filed within ten days of the limitation period expiring. Planning around it is a worse strategy than reading the file in time.

Audit trail · Case #IME-4812 exportable
08:12Packet received · 342 pp / 2 packetssystem
08:3111 pages deduplicatedsystem
08:44p.140 flagged — wrong patientsystem
08:54Record review complete · review complete · chronology cited · cited 100%system
09:20Record review reviewed · citations verifiedreviewer
09:26Record review exported · affidavit sworn and filed off-platformreviewer
Every access logged · file deleted 30 days after delivery
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Medrecords AI EVERY LINE CITED
CASE #IME-4812 · ADAMS, T.342 pp
2/14 — ER visit, right knee p.4
4/18 — arthroscopic surgery p.61
p.140 — wrong patient quarantined
Medrecords AI
Read every page · cite every line

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Every line cited

If we can't cite it, we don't say it. Every sentence links to its source page.

Deleted after delivery

Files are deleted 30 days after delivery, with a full audit log of every access.

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FAQ

Georgia expert affidavits, answered.

No. The statute requires an affidavit of an expert competent to testify, setting forth at least one negligent act or omission and the factual basis for it. That is sworn testimony and it belongs to the expert. We prepare the page-cited record review they read first.

No. Identifying the act and its factual basis is exactly what §9-11-9.1(a) assigns to the affiant. The review carries the documented encounters, findings and sequence, each cited to a page, and leaves the characterisation to the expert.

Where the period of limitation will expire within ten days of filing and time constraints prevented preparing the affidavit, the contemporaneous filing requirement is relaxed and the affidavit follows within forty-five days. It is a narrow exception, not a general extension.

No. Medrecords AI does not retrieve records from providers or facilities. You bring the records you already have — review starts in minutes from upload. Retrieval vendors take days; you can keep yours and still cut the review to minutes.

The statute names dismissal for failure to state a claim as the consequence when the affidavit is not filed in the periods it specifies. Georgia courts have applied the specificity requirement strictly, which is why the file behind the affidavit matters.

Send one file. We'll tell you what we can read.

No obligation. If the case type is buildable we'll scope it; if it isn't, we'll say so.