Most of the time when a report or record is created in relation to an incident, such as a call to emergency medical services or even a police report, somewhere out there is a bill associated with that incident. Medical records and incident reports are important evidence in personal injury litigation, but the associated billing records determine costs associated with an injury and its treatment. While a police or EMS report can show what happened and how, the billing records show what the incident cost, so they play a key role in determining settlement amounts.
One Incident, Multiple Bills
For a personal injury case, billing for every step of the client’s treatment will need documentation, but getting all those documents into one place can be challenging. Any emergency room visit typically generates three bills: one for the facility, one for the ER physician, and one for radiology. Additional bills include EMS that tends to the patient on scene and the primary care physician that follows up with the injuries later. Add even more billing records to the list if the patient sees a specialist, or if the patient needs surgery, physical therapy, or rehabilitation. Chiropractic and massage therapy are less common treatments, but if the patient uses them to treat their injury, those bills are part of the case. Every treatment procedure generates a bill, and you need every bill as evidence for your client’s claim.
Navigating the healthcare billing system can be challenging for anyone, but the ease of information-gathering varies widely for third-parties seeking billing records. Some larger hospitals may have procedures in place to allow streamlined to access billing records, but more often different departments and services use their own billing agencies.
One Company, One Portal
Instead of using your own time and energy to locate and contact the many billing services that have your clients’ billing records, The Records Company makes those contacts and retrieves billing records for you, from anywhere. Even if your client’s billing records span multiple offices or healthcare systems, even across multiple states, we can retrieve them along with the medical records, EMS reports, police reports, and any other records that go along with the bills. You just register through our online portal, submit your request, and we do the rest. We provide one stop for all your records retrieval needs.