Can i use medco without insurance

What would be lost if this was to take place over video call? From our experience with dealing with travel sickness claims, medical assessments are routinely undertaken via video examination, this is accepted practice in this area given the majority of assessments are undertaken on claimants that have fully recovered.

It is accepted that there are no additional benefits from a physical examination, given the nature of the injury i. The recorded examination would provide a first hand account from the claimant.

The medical expert could provide their opinion and prognosis either as part of the video recording or within an accompanying written report. Streamlining the process, with less ambiguity around the assessment of injuries. This would be especially useful in cases where surveillance evidence calls into question the severity of injuries or where there is a dispute between the claimant and the expert as to what was reported.

Outside of MedCo there are current examples of more severe injuries having video examinations and rehabilitation treatment being provided over video call. Are these the unintended pilot test cases for a MedCo video assessment revolution?

Does this lay the groundwork for an even simpler compensation journey for litigants in person? Especially when you consider the impending introduction of the new litigant in person claims portal. On balance MedCo video assessments should be here to stay, but there needs to be an appreciation towards increased fraud risks, and where video examinations are undertaken a defendant should be able to obtain their own evidence or request a physical examination without justification.

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You can change your location preference at any time in the website header, and manage your cookies in the website footer. Refuse Accept. Find out more about cookies and how we use cookies via our Privacy notice. Facet Name Our people. From 6 April only registered experts and MROs will be able to provide initial medical reports. While in a speech yesterday to the ABI Motor Conference the Secretary of State Chris Grayling referred to a start date of 1 April , the later date of 6 April which is the following Monday seems the more likely one.

From then onwards it will be mandatory for the initial medical report to be commissioned via MedCo. The MRO search will also offer users both national and local provider options. Importantly, the experts or MROs offered will exclude those with whom the solicitor approaching MedCo has a direct financial link.

The government have made it clear that the system will not operate in a way that ensures an equal share of instructions to all experts and MROs, so there will remain scope for experts and MROs to distinguish their offerings and secure more instructions as a result. But all experts who are registered with MedCo will appear in the results of some searches so that they have the chance of being instructed.

The MedCo website is now live, and a survey asks basic questions only of an expert or MRO looking to register, around the number of reports written in the last 12 months, and the number expected to be able to be handled in the next year. In the case of the MRO, the questions are around the number of experts registered with them, and the number of reports written by them over the last year.

Experts are asked to say which of the permitted specialisms they fall into and the number of MROs they are registered with. There are no questions at this stage around qualifications and competency. MedCo as well as the MoJ at present only to want to see that there will be enough expert capacity from April onwards and understand the number of experts and MROs in each area. The exact number of experts or MROs that will appear on each list is still something that is being considered and our understanding is that the MoJ will decide upon what they expect to be a limited choice of experts in the new year, once the initial expert registration process has been completed which will enable them to better assess capacity in the market.

It is anticipated that the number of options that might finally be offered will be sufficient to provide claimants with choice, whilst still ensuring that the expert is independent. It will be interesting to see how the circle is squared. For the reforms to be a success, it will be essential that this part of the process is approached in an appropriate way. One of the key stated aims of these reforms is to break the links between the commissioner of the report and the expert and the government have again stated that organisations with direct financial links to medical experts or MROs will not be able to commission reports from those experts or MROs.

Presumably, existing financial relationships will be disclosed to MedCo by the MRO or expert which is being registered so that they are then excluded from searches by the linked claimant law firms.

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