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STATEMENT OF ACCEPTED FACTS PREPARATION

The SOAF a referee opinion can actually stand on.

Statement of accepted facts preparation reads the entire FECA file, often twenty years and three thousand pages, and returns the accepted conditions, dates of injury, and job factors, each cited to its page. The Employees' Compensation Appeals Board vacates decisions built on an incomplete SOAF, because a referee opinion resting on a defective one has no probative value.

Click any row → the source page it cites
Fact extract · Case #IME-4812 cited
Adams, Timothy · case file production
342 pp / 2 packets received logged
11 duplicate pages removed free
p.140 — wrong patient quarantined
Pages 342 Visits 7 Cited 100%

The rulebook is codified. The referee publishes its grades.

We do not build for a case type until we can name the standard that defines a correct output and the body that grades the file against it. In federal workers' compensation, the SOAF has both, and the grading is a matter of public record.

The rulebook and the referee
The rulebook
  • 5 USC §8101 et seq — the Federal Employees' Compensation Act itself
  • 20 CFR Part 10, the claims regulations OWCP administers the file under
  • FECA Procedure Manual Parts 2 & 3, which set what a Statement of Accepted Facts has to contain and when it has to be updated
  • 5 USC §8123(a) referee examinations, ordered when the medical evidence conflicts
  • AMA Guides 6th ed, mandatory for schedule awards under 20 CFR §10.404
The referee
  • The Employees' Compensation Appeals Board, which routinely vacates decisions when the SOAF was incomplete or omitted a material fact
  • Its standing rule: a referee opinion built on a defective SOAF has no probative value
  • A published, searchable body of case law grading the exact document you would produce
Roughly 55,000 document-intensive federal files a year, each carrying about eight hours of assembly time One upload, one pass, every fact page-cited
Fact extract · Case #IME-4812 cited 100%
Production342 pp / 2 packets · 11 deduplicatedlogged
Accepted conditionPage-cited to the treating recordcited
Treatment course7 visits, improving since 4/02in date order
Wrong-patient pagep.140 held out of the extractquarantined
Facts extracted · cited 100% · no acceptance decisions
What the file actually looks like

Five hundred pages on a light day. Five thousand on a real one.

A FECA case file runs 500 to 5,000 pages, with the typical file sitting near 2,750. It arrives as several productions rather than one, accumulated across decades of employment, sometimes across more than one agency, and no two productions are ordered the same way.

The hard parts are consistent: faxed and rescanned clinic notes that OCR badly, handwriting on the forms that carry the duty status, and the same treatment episode repeated across two or three productions under different cover sheets. Every one of those is a place a material fact goes missing from a Statement of Accepted Facts.

92,193
new FECA claims in FY2024
159,190
beneficiaries in the program
2.83M
medical bills processed
$3.615B
paid out across the program
Source: DOL, FY2024
What we'd build with you

Four steps, starting with one real file.

01

Send one real file

A live FECA case file, in whatever shape it reached you: multiple productions, degraded scans, handwriting and all. In the demo case that was 342 pages across 2 packets, with a wrong-patient page caught before the read started.

02

We return the read

Accepted conditions, dates of injury, job factors and treatment course, each cited to the page it came from, plus the duplicates removed and anything that does not belong to this claimant held out in its own line.

03

We scope the build

Output shaped to the FECA Procedure Manual and to how your Injury Compensation Program Administrators already work, alongside the neighbouring builds in this lane: impairment rating record review and California QME record review.

04

You run it

Your program runs the reads and your people decide. We never determine what is accepted, issue the Statement of Accepted Facts, or weigh one medical opinion against another. Those decisions stay with the claim examiner.

Audit trail · Case #IME-4812 exportable
08:12Production received · 342 pp / 2 packetssystem
08:3111 pages deduplicatedsystem
08:44p.140 flagged — wrong patientsystem
08:54Fact extract complete · 7 visits · cited 100%system
09:20Extract reviewed · citations verifiedreviewer
09:26Extract exported · SOAF issued off-platform by the claim examinerreviewer
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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Four capabilities behind every fact extract.

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

Medical Chronology

Twenty years of treatment ordered into one timeline, from date of injury forward, synced to every source page.

IN ACTION · 7 visits, improving since 4/02, in date order

Record Version & Alteration Detection

When the same note arrives twice across two productions, the differences between the versions are surfaced rather than silently merged.

IN ACTION · 11 duplicates removed, p.140 quarantined

Missing Records Identification

The gaps between what the file references and what the file contains, listed before a referee is asked to write an opinion on it.

IN ACTION · referenced but not produced, flagged by page

Custom Report Builder

The extract comes out in the field order your agency already uses, so the facts drop straight into the document your examiner signs.

IN ACTION · 38 template fields filled from the record
FAQ

SOAF preparation, answered.

It is the factual foundation a FECA claim examiner gives a physician before any medical opinion is written: the accepted conditions, the dates of injury, the claimant's job factors and duty status. The FECA Procedure Manual governs what belongs in it. We read the file and return those elements page-cited; the claim examiner decides what is accepted and signs the document.

No. SOAF preparation here means extraction, not authorship of the final document. We surface every accepted condition, date of injury and job factor the FECA file supports, each cited to its source page, plus the material facts the file contains that a draft has not picked up yet. The Injury Compensation Program Administrator or claim examiner decides what is accepted and issues the SOAF.

20 CFR 10.404 makes the AMA Guides 6th edition the mandatory standard for FECA schedule awards. We pull the measurements, examination findings and dates the file actually documents and cite each one to its page, so the impairment rating is written against evidence rather than recollection. We do not calculate the rating or the award; the evaluating physician and the claim examiner do.

Referee examinations under 5 USC 8123(a) are only as good as the record sent with them. We return the accepted conditions, the treatment history in date order, and the job factors, each cited, so the referral packet carries the same facts the file carries. Choosing the physician, framing the questions and weighing the resulting opinion stay with the agency and OWCP.

Yes, as record work. For an ECAB appeal we assemble and cite the medical evidence already in the file, including what an earlier Statement of Accepted Facts left out. For an OWCP-5c work capacity evaluation we surface the documented restrictions and the dates they were recorded. We do not argue the appeal, complete the form, or decide work capacity.

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.