Legal Nurse Consulting · Los Angeles, CA
Twenty years in health care. Now working your case.
Nova Health Consulting turns dense, inconsistent medical records into clear chronologies and defensible standard-of-care analysis — for attorneys handling medical malpractice, personal injury, and catastrophic injury litigation.
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Legal Nurse Consulting
Why Nova
The record and the case theory should say the same thing.
Most medical records come back as notes, orders, and results. That is not the same as understanding what happened. Jose Rangel currently manages a large and busy Emergency Department and has served as an ER nurse, flight nurse, critical care transport nurse, nursing clinical instructor, and Trauma Team Lead at a Level II center. He reads a chart the way the people who wrote it were thinking when they wrote it — including what they left out.
Clinical judgment, not chart transcription
A chronology that only restates the record forces you to do the analysis yourself. Every deliverable separates disputed from undisputed facts, flags where the documentation and the clinical picture diverge, and says plainly what a treating clinician would have been expected to do.
High-acuity specificity
Triage decisions, boarding, handoff failures, ventilator and drip management, transport deterioration, and the difference between a new injury and an exacerbation of a pre-existing condition. These are the fact patterns where cases are won and where a generalist reviewer misses the point.
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Nova takes plaintiff and defense engagements, plus insurer and TPA work on malpractice, PI, and workers' compensation claims. The analysis does not change with the retainer — you get what the record supports, including when that undercuts the theory you were hoping for.
Published rates
Fees, minimums, retainer, and rush terms are on the rates page before you call. No discovery-call pricing dance, no surprise invoice. You know what a merit screen costs before you send the file.
Services
Six ways a clinician changes what you can do with a record.
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01 · Merit · discovery · pre-demandMedical record review
Full-chart review of hospital, EMS, and provider records to flag what supports — or undercuts — the case.
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02 · Demand · mediation · trialChronological medical summary
A clean, dated timeline of care built from thousands of pages, so the clinical narrative reads clearly.
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03 · Merit · expert designationStandard of care analysis
A clinical opinion on whether care met the accepted standard, written to hold up under cross-examination.
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04 · Discovery · damagesIndependent medical examinations
Coordination and clinical support for IMEs and defense medical exams, with a nurse's read on the findings.
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05 · Expert designation · trial prepExpert witness liaison
Sourcing and vetting physician and nursing experts, and translating between specialists and litigation teams.
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06 · Any stageCase strategy consultation
Direct calls with your team to pressure-test the medicine behind the theory of the case.
View details →The record and the case theory should say the same thing. My job is making sure they do.Jose Rangel, DNP-RN · Managing Director
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A short summary, the type of review you need, and any deadline you're working against. Records follow once scope and retainer are confirmed.