Healthcare AI & Digital Health Startup Advisory
Suthrave & Associates, LLC advises early-stage and growth-stage healthcare startups developing clinical, operational, and AI-enabled healthcare solutions.
Our consultants help founders, CEOs, product leaders, and venture-backed teams evaluate clinical product design, care delivery workflows, utilization management processes, and scalability strategy.
We bring practical experience at the intersection of hospital medicine, utilization management, clinical intelligence, and AI-powered healthcare solutions. Our goal is to help startups build products that are clinically credible, operationally useful, safer to scale, and better aligned with the needs of physicians, payers, health systems, and patients.
Medical Record Review & Medicolegal Case Analysis
Suthrave & Associates, LLC provides expert physician review of medical records for litigation support, malpractice cases, and legal preparation for medical malpractice attorneys nationwide. We provide objective and defensible clinical analysis for attorneys and legal teams.
Our internal medicine and hospital medicine experts conduct systematic reviews of medical records, case materials, timelines, and relevant clinical issues. We provide organized written reports that identify key medical facts, standards of care considerations, causation issues, damages-related clinical questions, and potential strengths or weaknesses in the case.
Our reports are designed to help legal counsel understand complex medical issues efficiently, prepare for negotiation, deposition, mediation, arbitration, or trial, and make informed litigation decisions.
Expert Witness Services
Our medical experts are experienced in reviewing complex internal medicine and hospital medicine matters, including inpatient care, diagnostic delays, medication issues, care transitions, hospital complications, and medical decision-making.
When testimony is needed, we communicate nuanced medical information in a clear, credible, and understandable manner while maintaining objectivity and professional independence.
Hospital Medicine Advisory
Suthrave & Associates, LLC provides physician-led advisory services for hospitals and health systems seeking to build, strengthen, or redesign hospital medicine programs.
Drawing on clinical and consulting experience across multiple hospitals and health systems, including organizations developing new hospital medicine programs, we help physician leaders and executives evaluate program structure, hospitalist workflow, care coordination, inpatient throughput, discharge processes, and operational performance.
Our advisory work focuses on practical, hospitalist-centered solutions that reduce friction, improve communication, support safer transitions of care, and help sustain high-functioning inpatient medicine programs.
Independent Clinical Review & Utilization Review
Suthrave & Associates, LLC provides physician-led clinical review services for independent review organizations (IROs), health plans, pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs), third-party administrators (TPAs), medical licensure boards, government entities, and CMS-endorsed Quality Improvement Organizations (QIOs).
Our consultants bring extensive experience in clinical and utilization reviews, including medical necessity appeals, quality of care evaluations, Medical Assessment/Opinion cases, special investigations, DRG clinical validation, and pharmacy benefit reviews.
We provide objective, clinically grounded analysis to support fair, defensible, and timely case determinations.