Suthrave & Associates, LLC is a physician-led healthcare consulting firm providing clinical insight across healthcare strategy, hospital medicine, utilization management, quality review, medicolegal analysis, and healthcare AI advisory.
Our consultants bring experience across front-line clinical practice, hospital operations, physician leadership, clinical performance improvement, utilization review, and digital health. This perspective allows us to evaluate healthcare challenges from both the bedside and the executive level.
The firm is led by a physician executive and practicing hospitalist with advanced training in medicine, business administration, and healthcare administration. Leadership experience includes hospital medicine program development, clinical workflow optimization, quality and patient safety, care management, physician engagement, revenue cycle alignment, utilization management, and medical staff affairs.
Suthrave & Associates, LLC also brings practical experience in AI-enabled clinical review, including model evaluation, level-of-care determinations, medical policy alignment, and utilization management modernization.
Our work is grounded in objective clinical judgment, operational practicality, and clear communication. We help attorneys, healthcare organizations, review entities, and digital health companies make better-informed decisions in complex healthcare environments.
Principal Consultant
Aswani “Ash” Suthrave, MD, MBA, MHA, FACHE
Principal, Suthrave & Associates, LLC
Dr. Suthrave is a physician executive and practicing hospitalist with experience across hospital medicine, healthcare operations, utilization management, clinical review, medicolegal analysis, and healthcare AI advisory.
He brings a combined clinical and executive perspective to complex healthcare challenges, drawing on front-line hospital medicine practice, health system leadership, clinical workflow improvement, and AI-enabled utilization management work.
His background includes physician leadership, quality and patient safety, care management, clinical operations, medical necessity review, expert case analysis, and digital health advisory.
Representative Healthcare System Experience
Our consultants bring clinical, operational, advisory, and leadership experience across academic medical centers, community hospitals, regional health systems, and integrated delivery networks.
Representative organizations include:
- Johns Hopkins Medicine
- MedStar Health
- Ballad Health
- Sentara Health
- Inova Health
- HCA Healthcare
- Carilion Clinic
- UVA Health
- Med Center Health
- UPMC
- Chesapeake Regional Healthcare
- University of Maryland Medical Center Midtown Campus
- Harvard Medical Faculty Physicians
- NewYork-Presbyterian Healthcare System
- TidalHealth
- Augusta Health
Listed organizations reflect prior or current clinical, leadership, consulting, or educational experience and do not imply endorsement, sponsorship, or formal affiliation by those organizations.