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TEXAS CERTIFICATE OF MERIT RECORD REVIEW

120 days from the answer. Dismissal with prejudice if you miss.

Texas certificate of merit record review services prepare the page-cited record an expert reads before writing a Chapter 74 expert report. Every encounter, finding and imaging study is indexed to its source page, so the standard-of-care and causation opinions in the report 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 · health care liability file
342 pp / 2 packets received logged
11 duplicate pages removed free
p.140 — wrong patient quarantined
Pages 342 Documents 27 Cited 100%

Section 74.351 names the report. It also names the penalty.

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
  • Tex. Civ. Prac. & Rem. Code §74.351(a), which requires service of an expert report and curriculum vitae on each party within 120 days after that defendant's original answer is filed
  • §74.351(r)(6), which defines the report as a fair summary of the expert's opinions on the applicable standard of care, the manner in which the care failed to meet it, and the causal relationship to the injury
  • §74.351(c), the single thirty-day extension a court may grant where a report is served but found deficient
  • Chapter 74 as a whole, which governs health care liability claims in Texas
The referee
  • The trial court on a §74.351(b) motion to dismiss, where the remedy is dismissal with prejudice plus reasonable attorney's fees and costs
  • The appellate courts, which review the sufficiency of a report for abuse of discretion
  • The retained expert, whose report has to state the standard, the failure and the causal link in enough detail to be more than conclusory
Expert hours reading a full chart against a 120-day statutory clock 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 standard-of-care opinion offered
How it works

3 steps between the records and the report.

01

Send the record set

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

02

We return the review, page-cited

The encounter chronology, findings, imaging and medication history, each line citing the page it came from, with referenced-but-absent records flagged.

03

Your expert writes the report

The standard of care, the manner of the failure and the causal relationship under §74.351(r)(6) are the expert's opinions, in the expert's own report.

The boundary, in writing

A record review, never an expert report.

We index and cite what the record documents. We do not state the applicable standard of care, opine that it was not met, address causation, or draft or sign a Chapter 74 expert report. Section 74.351(r)(6) makes all three of those the expert's opinions, and they stay with the expert.

The 120-day clock runs from each defendant's original answer, not from filing, so a multi-defendant case carries more than one deadline. The review is organised by defendant and encounter so a per-defendant report is a read, not a re-sort.

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 · expert report served 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

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

FAQ

Texas Chapter 74 expert reports, answered.

No. Section 74.351(r)(6) defines the report as the expert's fair summary of their own opinions on the standard of care, the failure to meet it and causation. We prepare the page-cited record review the expert reads before writing it.

Under §74.351(a) the period runs from the date each defendant's original answer is filed, not from the date the claim was filed. In a multi-defendant case that produces separate deadlines, and the review is organised by defendant so each one can be worked independently.

Section 74.351(c) allows a court a single thirty-day extension where a report has been served and is found deficient. A report that is never served is a different situation, and the statutory remedy on the defendant's motion is dismissal with prejudice plus attorney's fees.

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.

No. Causation is one of the three elements the statute assigns to the expert. The review carries the documented sequence and findings, each cited to a page, and leaves every opinion in the report to the expert who signs it.

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.