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Medical Review for Defense Firms & Insurers

Neutral, defensible medical analysis and rebuttal on reliable turnaround. Review medical necessity, alternative causation, damages exposure, prior history, and IME / DME issues.

Defense Firms & Insurers

Understand the Medicine Before You Commit

Defense and claims teams need a sober read of the medicine that holds up — not advocacy. CauseMD provides physician-signed analysis of medical necessity, alternative causation, and damages exposure, plus rebuttal of opposing reports and IME / DME findings the records do not support.

The method is identical whichever side commissions it. We never work both sides of the same matter, and a conflict check runs before any case detail is shared.

What a review answers for the defense side

  • Is there an alternative cause the treating records actually support?
  • Was the treatment medically necessary, or is there over-treatment exposure?
  • What is the true damages exposure on the medical evidence?
  • Does prior history undercut the claimed injury or its severity?
  • Does an opposing IME / DME report overreach beyond the record citations?
  • Defensible input for reserve discussions, settlement posture, and deposition strategy.

Neutral method, conflict discipline. The same review process whichever side commissions it — and never both sides of one matter. See how we gate every opinion.

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What You Receive

A Defined, Defensible Deliverable

Issue mapThe medical questions the matter actually turns on.
Medical chronologyA clean, sourced timeline of the care at issue.
Causation memoWhether the records support the causal link — and where they do not.
Standard-of-care screenWhether the care met or deviated from the applicable standard.
Expert pathway memoThe exact specialty and expert the matter needs next.
Rebuttal reviewA point-by-point response to an opposing report or IME.
How It Works

Conflict-Cleared, PHI-Safe Intake

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Submit metadataMatter type, side, jurisdiction & the medical question. No PHI
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Conflict checkWe screen the opposing party before anything else. PHI gate
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Scope & priceDefined scope and a fixed price, agreed in writing.
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Secure upload linkA HIPAA-aware link + BAA — records move here, not by email. Secure · BAA
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Physician reviewA specialty-matched physician reviews the records.
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Signed opinionA deposition-safe, physician-signed deliverable.

No protected health information is collected on the public form. Records are shared only after the conflict check clears, through a secure, HIPAA-aware channel.

Put a Physician on the Medicine

Tell us the matter type, jurisdiction, and the medical question — metadata only, no records until conflicts clear.