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PENNSYLVANIA CERTIFICATE OF MERIT RECORD REVIEW

60 days to certify. However many pages the chart runs to.

Pennsylvania certificate of merit record review services prepare the page-cited record a licensed professional reads before signing a Rule 1042.3 certificate. Every treatment event, imaging study and note is indexed to its source page, so the reviewing professional's own opinion rests 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-suit record set
342 pp / 2 packets received logged
11 duplicate pages removed free
p.140 — wrong patient quarantined
Pages 342 Documents 27 Cited 100%

Rule 1042.3 names the document. Rule 1042.7 names the consequence.

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
  • Pa. R.C.P. 1042.3(a), which requires the certificate with the complaint or within sixty days after it, in one of three prescribed forms
  • Pa. R.C.P. 1042.3(a)(1), the form resting on a licensed professional's written statement that there is a reasonable probability the care fell outside acceptable professional standards
  • Pa. R.C.P. 1042.3(d), under which the court may extend the filing time for good cause shown, for a period not to exceed sixty days
  • Pa. R.C.P. 1042.6, the notice of intention to enter judgment of non pros, which a defendant may file no sooner than the thirty-first day after the complaint
The referee
  • The prothonotary, who enters judgment of non pros on praecipe under Pa. R.C.P. 1042.7 once the notice period runs
  • The trial court, on a petition to open or strike that judgment
  • The licensed professional whose written statement the certificate rests on, and who has to be willing to stand behind it
Professional review hours spent reading the chart inside a sixty-day window Flat 10¢/page here, duplicates free
Record review · Case #IME-4812 cited 100%
Packet342 pp / 2 packets · 11 deduplicatedlogged
Treatment chronologyBuilt from the produced recordcited
Provider and encounter listEvery treater, every visitcited
Gaps in the produced fileRecords referenced but not producedflagged
Review delivered · cited 100% · no merit opinion offered
How it works

3 steps between the records and the certificate.

01

Send the record set

Hospital charts, office notes, imaging reports, operative reports and billing, in any format. You already hold them.

02

We return the review, page-cited

A chronology, a provider and encounter list, and the documented course of treatment, each line citing the page it came from, with referenced-but-missing records flagged.

03

Your licensed professional forms the opinion

Whether the care fell outside acceptable professional standards is their judgment, written in their statement, and the certificate is counsel's filing.

The boundary, in writing

A record review, never a merit opinion.

We index and cite what the record documents. We do not assess the standard of care, state whether it was breached, decide whether a claim has merit, or draft or sign a certificate of merit. Rule 1042.3(a)(1) rests the certificate on a licensed professional's written statement, and that statement is theirs to write.

Where the chart references a record that was never produced, the review flags it rather than reading past it. A missing operative report found in week one is a records request; found after the certificate is filed, it is a problem.

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 · certificate signed and filed off-platformreviewer
Every access logged · file deleted 30 days after delivery
Why Medrecords AI

The rules the platform never breaks.

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

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.

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4 capabilities behind every record review.

The record review is one deliverable of the same platform that reads, sorts, and cites the whole record.

FAQ

Pennsylvania certificates of merit, answered.

No. The certificate is counsel's filing under Pa. R.C.P. 1042.3, and where it rests on subsection (a)(1) it rests on a licensed professional's own written statement. We prepare the page-cited record review that professional reads first.

No. That opinion belongs to the licensed professional whose statement supports the certificate. The review carries what the record documents — the encounters, the findings, the sequence, the medications — each cited to its source page.

The read starts in minutes from upload, because you already hold the records. Rule 1042.3(d) allows the court to extend the time up to sixty more days for good cause, but the constraint the extension addresses is reading time, and that is the part this removes.

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.

Under Pa. R.C.P. 1042.6 a defendant may file a notice of intention no sooner than the thirty-first day after the complaint, and judgment of non pros may be entered on praecipe under Rule 1042.7 thirty days after that notice. The clock is procedural, not clinical.

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.