30+ YEARS OF HEALTHCARE INDUSTRY EXPERIENCE

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SMLC provides  high-quality and affordable behind-the-scenes legal nurse consultant support nationwide for legal teams—both plaintiff and defense, for all medical related cases. In addition to providing analysis, consulting opinions, and guidance throughout your case, we also analyze EMR Audit Trails, locate Expert Witnesses, and encompass the Medical Damages aspect—Medical Cost Projections and Medicare Set-Asides.

Founder/CEO—Susan Schutz has >30 years  of diverse healthcare experience with a solid foundation of medical knowledge stemming from care provided to patients across the life spectrum from neonatal to geriatric in multiple specialties, allowing her to be an asset for your complex cases. She has worn many hats in her career ranging from Float Nurse to Charge Nurse to Founder/CEO and is quite flexible to help create a custom product for you. Susan holds certifications in Legal Nurse Consulting, Case Management, Medical Cost Projections, Medicare Set-Asides, and Critical Care (alumnus), and is actively licensed to practice in all 50 states. 

Susan's  prior nursing experience are in the following areas:

• ICU (Cardiovascular, Cardiac, Med/Surg, Neuro, & Trauma)
• Heart and Lung Transplants- immediate postop recovery
• Specialized life support care- VADs (Ventricular Assist Devices), ECMO, VDR Ventilator and Nitric Oxide
• ER/Trauma
• OB- Labor, Delivery, Recovery, Postpartum, & Nursery
• Pediatric Unit
• Med/Surg Unit
• Orthopedic Unit
• Progressive Care Unit
• Urology Unit
• PACU (Recovery Room)
• Behavioral Health/Opioid Dependence (Unit and ER)
• Same Day Surgery
• Clinical Decision Unit (assisted with unit launch and daily operations)
• Nursing Home/Assisted Living
• Case Management and Discharge Planning- hospital and payor sides 
• Payor Medical Management- Transplants (Solid Organ/Bone Marrow) and Specialty Pharmacy/Gene & Cellular Therapy
• Utilization Review (Medical Necessity of services)-  hospital and payor sides
• Leadership/Administration and QI/QA

Having strong knowledge of the inner workings of the American healthcare system—derived from experience  in the hospital settings (large metroplex to rural critical access), nursing home, and the insurance industry— enables us the ability to have the bigger picture view.

The advantages of teaming with us at SMLC can save you a lot of time and money by determining if your case has merit to begin with, to bolstering your case, as well as preventing you from being blindsided. We look forward to serving you!