Westlaw and LexisNexis are the gold standard for legal research. For healthcare malpractice cases, Medistill covers the same case law and adds provider intelligence no legal research platform offers: compliance screening, billing analysis, peer comparison, and pharma conflict detection.
Their price
$20K–$40K+/yr
Our price
from $199/month
What we add
Provider intelligence + case law
| Feature | | Westlaw / LexisNexis |
|---|---|---|
| Healthcare court cases | 10M+ cases with full opinion text, regularly refreshed. Federal + state, all jurisdictions. Not same-day on new opinions. | Full federal and state case law, continuously updated |
| Non-healthcare case law | Same 10M+ database covers all practice areas (tax, contracts, criminal, IP, etc.) | Comprehensive coverage across all practice areas |
| Full-text opinion search | Search 10M+ opinions by keyword, legal doctrine, or phrase (“informed consent”, “res ipsa loquitur”) | Full-text search with KeyCite / Shepard’s citation checking |
| Citation lookup | Search by citation (e.g., “706 F. App’x 30”), instant match | Full citation lookup with cross-references and history |
| Citation treatment / Shepardizing | 2.6M citation-level treatment classifications (predicted overruled, reversed, affirmed, distinguished from citing-opinion language patterns), plus “Cited by” reverse lookup ranked by legal influence (pagerank). Pattern-based, not editor-curated. Editor-verified treatment is on the roadmap. | Editor-curated Shepard’s / KeyCite treatment, continuously updated. Gold standard for case-to-case precision. |
| Recent opinions (2020–present) | Federal + state opinions refreshed on a regular cadence, not same-day | Continuously updated, same-day new opinions |
| Provider compliance screening | 130+ federal + state enforcement databases, risk scores, all 50 states | Not available |
| Provider billing analysis | 5-year Medicare billing vs peer averages, outlier detection by procedure | Not available |
| Pharma payment conflicts | Every industry payment by company, product, year. Cross-ref with billing. | Not available |
| Malpractice history (NPDB) | 1.9M adverse action and malpractice payment reports | Not available (NPDB is not a legal research source) |
| Hospital staffing analysis | Full provider roster by specialty at any hospital, 273K facilities | Not available |
| Peer comparison (standard of care) | Automated peer ranking by specialty, geography, volume, and risk score | Not available (expert witness work, not a platform feature) |
| Litigation trend analysis | Case counts by year, court, state, decade. Compare across entities. | Available via manual search and count |
| Case influence ranking | Results ranked by pagerank (legal influence). Most-cited cases surface first. | Results ranked by relevance algorithm |
| Hospital financial data | 5–7 year revenue, margin, beds, FTE from CMS cost reports | Not available |
| CMS inspection deficiencies | 408K facility deficiencies with severity and categories | Not available |
| Geographic provider search | Find specialists within any radius for referral feasibility defense | Not available |
| Damage caps & SOL by state | Instant lookup for all 50 states + DC, caps, SOL, discovery rule, statute of repose, minor exceptions, and statute citations | Available in secondary sources (treatises, practice guides) |
| Statutes and regulations | 19 key federal healthcare statutes, EMTALA, Stark, Anti-Kickback, False Claims Act, HIPAA, NPDB. Full text excerpts searchable by citation or keyword. | Complete USC, CFR, state statutes, regulations, and legislative history |
| Billing code lookup | Explain any CPT/HCPCS code with clinical context and avg Medicare payment | Not available |
| Case classification by topic | 4.0M cases pre-classified into 55 legal categories, filter by malpractice, EMTALA, informed consent, hospital negligence, and more | Topic filtering available via headnotes and key numbers |
| Verdict/settlement data | 530K malpractice payments with avg/median/max by state, year, allegation type (1990–2025) | VerdictSearch add-on ($$$) or separate JuryVerdictAlert subscription |
| Expert witness case history | 206K cases mentioning expert witnesses, 75K medical experts, 1,700+ Daubert challenges | Expert witness profiler available via Litigation Profile Suite |
| AI interface | Ask in any language, get answers in any language. Works on desktop and mobile. Generate custom reports, share with anyone, schedule recurring analyses. API for automation. | CoCounsel AI (add-on) + traditional Boolean search |
| Pricing | from $199/mo, cancel anytime | $20K–$40K+/yr, annual contract |
Where Westlaw / Lexis wins:
Where Medistill wins:
Use both if:
You keep Westlaw/Lexis for secondary sources (treatises, jury instructions) and comprehensive USC/CFR coverage. Add Medistill at from $199/mo for 10M+ healthcare court cases (current), Shepardizing with 2.6M citation-level treatment links (Case B overruled/reversed/affirmed Case A, precise case-to-case citations), 4.0M classified cases, 19 key federal healthcare statutes (EMTALA, Stark, FCA, HIPAA, NPDB) searchable by citation or keyword, and the provider intelligence layer they don't have: compliance screening, billing analysis, peer comparison, pharma conflicts, and hospital financials. Together they cover every angle of a healthcare malpractice case.
Pricing
Pro $199 / 500 credits · Business $499 / 1,500 credits · Unlimited $999 ($9,990/yr) · Team from $599/seat
Full access to all 2,000+ datasets. No per-query fees. 1 credit per entity processed.
No credit card required. Expires in 15 days.