Frequently Asked Questions
Legal Nurse Consulting Services
Who employs Legal Nurse Consultants?
Legal
Nurse Consultants primarily work with defense and plaintiff attorneys, and insurance companies.
Do you work with injured patients who are not represented by attorneys?
No. We only work with attorneys, insurance companies and healthcare facilities.
Why should an attorney use a Legal Nurse Consultant rather than
a physician to screen a case?
Physicians may effectively provide some of the same services per hour
that Legal Nurse Consultants provide. However, hiring a Legal
Nurse Consultant is much more cost-effective. A physician may charge
between $250 and $800 to initially screen a case.
That is extremely expensive, especially when a large part of that time
is spent organizing medical records and researching issues.
You are better off allowing a Legal
Nurse Consultant to do those tasks so that you can better allocate
your resources to physicians only on those cases where it is necessary
and only at the time in the case when it becomes appropriate. Don’t
forget many medical cases that are reviewed fail to meet the
criteria necessary to prove the case. Why spend a fortune for a physician
to tell you that?
Additionally, Med-Law Connection offers
ancillary services that most physicians and other agencies do not provide,
such as Case
Management, Life
Care Plans, assistance with Medicare
Set-Aside Allocations, Medical
Expert Location services and
Exhibit Preparation for trial.
Why is it important to have a Legal Nurse Consultant summarize medical
records in a medically related case?
A Legal
Nurse Consultant is better able to read and interpret medical records
than a paralegal, insurance adjuster or attorney. Legal
Nurse Consultants are familiar with physician's handwriting, medical
terminology and abbreviations. They can spot the significant clinical
information that may otherwise be overlooked. They can point out both
strengths and weaknesses of a case from a medical perspective and are
able to identify missing components of the medical record.
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