Litigation Support
The Litigation Support team is comprised of experts in the fields of healthcare operations, clinical care management, reimbursement, and regulatory requirements. When these core skill sets are combined with our data analytics solutions, we have proven our success in providing high-quality services from discovery through expert witness testimony.
Because our diversified expertise of our Litigation Support team, we bridge the gaps often found in litigation cases between clinical, business, regulatory, and reimbursement making this a unique KHC differentiator in the marketplace.
Our Litigation Support services include arbitration and litigation between providers, practitioners, payers (including Federal and State payers) and providers, billing companies and/or payers and additionally include our demonstrated clinical experience in the evaluation of medical necessity, as well as violations of clinical practice, quality, safety, and documentation standards for in-house and external counsel.
Expert Witness Testimony
Kohler Healthcare is a team of litigation support experts and trial consultants with an unrivaled track record of success. We provide expert witness testimony, deposition preparation and strategy, independent analysis, data forensics, analytics and statistics, and visualizations. We work with you to assure we are the right fit for the case.
Clinical Knowledge / Regulatory Knowledge / Data Analytics
We are experienced trial consultants assist in developing winning strategies.
We collaborate with you real-time, on screen to analyze data, test hypotheses and solve critical problems.
Our proven process identifies the unique aspects of your case, applies our experts’ experience, and incorporates relevant industry data and other comparative resources to support the litigation strategy.
Analytics
We are proud of the team of professionals with backgrounds in healthcare operations, finance, documentation, coding, billing combine with the in-depth knowledge of regulatory requirements of the industry together with science and engineering. You can be confident that we can combine and integrate disparate data sets and present scenario options depicting best and worst-case options. We want you to have no surprises.
Litigation Support & Expert Witness Services
Our litigation support services span the entire case process from case strategy and planning, expert report preparation, depositions, trial preparation and trial expert witness. We also create trial demonstratives for both civil and criminal healthcare cases as part of our services.
Providing expert litigation support services requires a comprehensive knowledge and experience in the healthcare industry. To complement the intellectual capital of KHC consultants is our research capability and data analytics. We can manipulate large data sets that are analyzed computationally to detect trends and paterns. Specific services include:
- Reimbursement disputes and damage calculations
- Payer / Provider disputes
- Compliance with Federal and State Regulations
- Damages and valuations
- Medical coding & billing related to potential fraud & abuse
- Stark Law and Anti-Kickback Statute
- False Claims/Qui Tam Investigations
- Expert Witness Services
Appropriate Use of Statistics
We have long used statistics with a statistician on our team. We work with you to develop when and how to use statistical approaches in developing the scope and approach to the data analysis. It really knowing the data, what analysis can be performed with or without utilizing a formalized statistical approach, and what makes sense to drive deeper using statistical stratification analysis. To assist in the decision making, as part of the process, we collaborate with you to develop the purpose, strategy, and reasoning for comparative approaches.