Evidence-based future medical cost projections for catastrophic injury and chronic illness — prepared exclusively by a board-certified physician and Certified Life Care Planner, never delegated to non-physician staff.
Request a Consultation View ServicesPinnacle Life Care Planning is a physician-owned medicolegal firm dedicated to delivering medically authoritative, evidence-based life care plans that withstand rigorous scrutiny in mediation, deposition, and trial.
Founded and led by Rodney Sholty, MD, CLCP — a board-certified physician and Certified Life Care Planner — we combine decades of direct clinical experience across emergency, hospital, and case-management settings with specialized training in future medical cost projection and catastrophic case management.
We serve plaintiff and defense counsel, insurance carriers, case managers, and trust administrators across Texas and nationwide, with particular depth in traumatic brain injury, spinal cord injury, complex orthopedic trauma, amputation, and chronic pain.
Every plan is researched, written, and signed by a physician. Nothing is delegated to non-physician staff — ensuring the medical foundation holds up under cross-examination.
We are retained by plaintiff and defense alike. Our opinions follow the medical evidence — the same methodology, regardless of who retains us.
Every line item is sourced, geographically adjusted, and tied to published standards and peer-reviewed literature.
Engagements for personal injury, medical malpractice, and workers' compensation matters. A fee schedule and retention agreement are available upon request.
Full lifetime projections of medical care, rehabilitation, therapies, equipment, medications, home modifications, and attendant care — with detailed narrative, cost tables, and peer-reviewed references.
Critical analysis of opposing life care plans: methodology audits, duplication and inflation review, and concise rebuttal reports for defense or plaintiff counsel.
Focused cost projections when a full life care plan isn't required — geographically adjusted, source-cited estimates suitable for mediation and settlement valuation.
Clear, credible physician testimony at deposition and trial. Opinions are prepared to Daubert and Rule 702 standards from the outset.
Life care plans that properly account for VA benefits and polytrauma system resources — informed by first-hand experience as a service-connected disabled veteran.
Physician-level record analysis, medical chronologies, and causation-relevant summaries that give counsel command of the medical facts.
Every Pinnacle plan follows the published Standards of Practice for life care planners and is documented so that each recommendation and cost can be independently verified.
Methodology consistent with IALCP Standards of Practice and ICHCC certification requirements.
Reliable principles and methods, applied consistently and documented transparently — prepared with admissibility in mind.
Care recommendations tied to peer-reviewed literature, clinical practice guidelines, and treating-provider input.
Costs drawn from verifiable databases and geographically specific market research — every figure traceable to its source.
Most life care plans are written by nurses or rehabilitation counselors. A physician-authored plan carries a fundamentally different evidentiary weight: the author is qualified to opine on diagnosis, prognosis, causation-adjacent medical questions, and the medical necessity of every recommended item — not merely to catalog them.
Dr. Sholty's career spans the full continuum of care: high-acuity emergency medicine, inpatient hospitalist practice, primary care in underserved communities, and supervision of RN case-management teams. That breadth translates directly into realistic patient trajectories, accurate resource utilization, and projections that survive expert challenge.
His CLCP credential through the International Commission on Health Care Certification (ICHCC) reflects rigorous specialized training in lifetime cost projection aligned with the International Academy of Life Care Planners' standards.
Complimentary initial case consultation. Rapid conflict checks and clear timelines on every engagement.