Emergency Medicine & Clinical Systems Forensics

Specialties & Experience of this Expert Witness

Additional Information

Dr. Sonny Saggar is a healthcare systems consultant and digital forensic auditor with 31 years of clinical and operational leadership experience across the United Kingdom and the United States. He trained at Oxford University and St Bartholomew's Hospital Medical College, London, obtaining his MB BS degree in 1995. His consulting practice, Hive MedicoLegal, specializes in analyzing systems-level healthcare failures, medical documentation audits, EMR metadata/audit trails, and behavioral indexes for sentencing mitigation. Dr. Saggar partitions his litigation support services into two distinct pathways: 1. TESTIFYING EXPERT SERVICES: * EHR/EMR Forensic Audit Trails: Analyzing database logs, audit trails, and backend metadata to identify chart fabrication, backdating, and copy-paste billing fraud. * Sentencing & Supervised Release ESI Reports: Applying the clinical Emotional Stability Index (ESI) framework to evaluate rehabilitation, desistance, and recidivism risk for federal sentencing and supervised release modification. 2. NON-TESTIFYING CONSULTATIVE SERVICES: * Clinical Case Screening: Performing privileged clinical record reviews and merit screening for attorneys in Emergency Medicine and Urgent Care standard-of-care litigation (protected under Attorney Work Product). * Audit Defense & Compliance Prep: Analyzing clinic documentation and billing workflows to prepare providers for Medicare, ZPIC, and RAC audits. Dr. Saggar is the author of 10 scholarly working papers detailing healthcare compliance, clinical risk, and statutory frameworks (available on SSRN): - Pillar 1: Clinical Systems, EMR Forensics & Data Standards 1. No One Can Own the Language of Medicine: The Legal and Economic Case for an Open, AI-Native Standard for Coding Medical Interventions 2. The $812 Billion Illusion: A Law and Economics Case for Replacing PDF with Block-Semantic Trust Architectures - Pillar 2: Healthcare Billing Risk & Compliance 3. When Intent Disappears: How Federal Health Care Enforcement Criminalizes Administrative Conduct 4. Knowingly and Willfully: How Federal Healthcare Fraud Enforcement Abandoned Its Own Statutory Standard, and Why a Presidential Executive Order Cannot Fix It Alone 5. Ethical Triage: A Physician's Analysis of Legal Risk in Ambiguous Systems 6. RESTORING THE QUESTION: A Framework for Fairness, Proportionality, and Individualized Review in Private Professional Certification After Loper Bright - Pillar 3: Mitigation, Reentry & Supervised Release Reform 7. The Desistance Presumption: The Emotional Stability Index (ESI) as a Clinical Tool for Federal Supervised Release Reform 8. Reading § 3583(E): How Judicial Gloss Displaced the Statutory Standard for Supervised Release Modification and Termination 9. Supervised Release and the Clarity Principle: Statutory Authority, Probation Officer Roles, and the Supervision Relationship after Loper Bright 10. Automaticity: When Legal Systems Fire Without Thinking: Collateral Consequences, Statutory Drift, and the Independent Review That Loper Bright Requires