Rule 9(j) is pleaded in the complaint. There is no cure after the fact.
North Carolina certificate of merit record review services prepare the page-cited record a reviewing expert reads before a complaint is pleaded under Rule 9(j). Every encounter and finding is indexed to its source page, so the certification that the records reasonably available were reviewed describes something that actually happened.
The rule certifies a review. So the review has to be real.
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.
3 steps between the records and the pleading.
Send the record set
Every record reasonably available to you — hospital charts, office notes, imaging and operative reports, nursing records — in any format.
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.
Your expert reviews and counsel pleads
Whether the care complied with the applicable standard is the reviewing expert's opinion, and the Rule 9(j) certification is counsel's pleading.
A record review, never a Rule 9(j) certification.
We index and cite what the record documents. We do not assess whether the care complied with the applicable standard of care, decide whether a reviewer would qualify as an expert, or make the certification Rule 9(j) requires. The certification is counsel's, resting on a reviewing expert's willingness to testify.
Rule 9(j) turns on the records reasonably available to the plaintiff, so what the file is missing matters as much as what it holds. Records referenced in the chart but never produced are flagged rather than passed over.
The rules the platform never breaks.
EVERY LINE CITED
HIPAA, under a signed BAA
Every file is handled under our Business Associate Agreement, from the first byte.
Never trains a model
Your records are never used to train any AI model — ours or anyone else's.
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.
4 capabilities behind every record review.
The record review is one deliverable of the same platform that reads, sorts, and cites the whole record.
Medical Records OCR
Every page read in full — hospital charts, office notes, nursing flowsheets, handwritten records — nothing skipped, nothing guessed.
Medical Chronology
The course of care builds itself into one timeline, so the reviewing expert reads a sequence rather than a stack.
Verifiable AI Citations
If we can't cite it, we don't say it. Every line of the review links to the page range behind it.
Medical Summary Reports
The review formats straight into the reviewer's working file — your template, your letterhead.
North Carolina Rule 9(j), answered.
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.