Medical Experts for
High-Stakes Litigation

When the deadline can’t move, Expert NOW moves the engagement to the front of the line.

Expert NOW provides expedited access to Elite’s expert-alignment team for urgent matters requiring rapid expert disclosure, review, affidavits, merit screening, or other time-sensitive needs.

Expert NOW includes:

• Priority handling by Elite’s team
• Direct access to our Case Strategy and expert-alignment professionals
• Expedited expert identification, screening, and availability confirmation
• Rapid coordination for urgent review, consultation, affidavits, or other deliverables
• Continued communication throughout the expedited engagement

Expedited fees apply. Availability depends on the specialty, scope, and deadline.

Urgent matter? Speak directly with our team.

An indexed roadmap to the record.

Discovery-Ready Case Chronologies provide a focused, accurate index to the medical record for attorneys, experts, and the broader litigation team. They are Bates-referenced and linked to the underlying case materials, allowing users to move quickly from a chronology entry to the source material.

Unlike strategic analyses or attorney work product, these chronologies contain no opinions, strategy, or case commentary. They are deliberately designed to stand on their own and to be shared with retained experts and, when appropriate, produced in discovery.

Each chronology provides:

• A clear chronological roadmap to the complete medical record
• Bates references with direct record links when available
• Rapid orientation to names, dates, facilities, diagnoses, procedures, and pivotal events
• A discovery-ready format containing no strategic or opinion-based content

Providing the chronology alongside the complete record set can materially reduce duplicative review time and expert billable hours while improving efficiency across the case. Designed with shareability and discovery in mind, each chronology page includes:

IMPORTANT NOTICE TO EXPERTS: The following chronology is provided as a courtesy to facilitate your orientation to various names, dates, and events in the medical record. It is not a substitute for your full and independent review of all case materials.

Interested in our novel approach? Speak directly with our team.

Experienced medical strategy, available throughout the case.

Every new Elite engagement includes 30 minutes with our physician-led case strategy team, giving counsel immediate access to actionable insight informed by more than 18,000 engagements.

When a matter requires deeper involvement, our team is available for ongoing strategic consultation. Additional consulting rates apply.

Strategic consulting may include:

• Analysis of complex medical questions
• Strategic consultation as new records, testimony, or issues emerge
• Troubleshooting unexpected developments and competing theories
• Preparation for expert depositions, cross-examination, and trial

The objective is straightforward: get the medicine right, then build the case.

Future care and vocational impact often require coordinated, discipline-specific analysis.

Elite identifies and hand-selects the appropriate physician or nurse Life Care Planner, vocational expert, rehabilitation specialist, or other consultant based on the medical, functional, and evidentiary issues in the case.

Our experts can address:

• Future medical care and treatment needs
• Medications, therapies, equipment, and attendant care
• Long-term costs associated with injury or disability
• Functional limitations and activities of daily living
• Employability and return-to-work capacity
• Transferable skills and alternative occupations
• Earning capacity and vocational loss
• Educational or retraining needs
• Impact of medical restrictions on future employment
• Review and rebuttal of opposing life care or vocational opinions

When appropriate, Elite can align complementary experts so that medical necessity, future care, functional capacity, and vocational impact are addressed by the professionals best qualified to evaluate each issue.

The right billing and coding expert depends on the issue.

Healthcare reimbursement disputes often require more than one type of expertise. Elite identifies and hand-selects the appropriate physician, certified coder, billing specialist, healthcare administrator, forensic auditor, or compliance expert based on the specific issues in the matter.

Our experts can address:

• Medical necessity
• CPT and Evaluation & Management coding
• ICD-10 coding and documentation
• Inpatient versus observation status
• Hospital and Emergency Department reimbursement
• Claim submission and payer disputes
• Upcoding and unbundling
• Billing and coding chart audits
• False Claims Act and qui tam matters
• Stark Law and Anti-Kickback issues
• Forensic review of medical records and claims
• Medicare, Medicaid, and commercial payer compliance

For matters involving both clinical necessity and coding, Elite can assemble complementary experts so that the physician addresses the medical issues while a qualified coding or billing expert evaluates the corresponding claims and reimbursement methodology.