Hospitals that have come to us for the first time for medical peer review services often have cases that have been either in litigation or subject to potential litigation for months if not years. We have been able to quickly help litigation teams and hospital quality managers gain clarity about these situations so they can more easily decide what their next course of action should be. In cases of litigation, if a hospital knows that their physician provider was at fault in a particular situation that leads to a bad outcome or a sentinel event, it makes more sense to settle those cases quickly, rather than incur more legal expenses by continuing to defend themselves.

When hospitals first experience successful case resolution through an outsourced peer review, they begin to believe that outsourcing to an independent review organization can have lasting benefits and should be done on a more systematic basis. Applying