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$100,000 Penalty Against Mental Health Center – Failure to Provide Timely Access to Records

The Office of Civil Rights (OCR) imposed a $100,000 penalty against a California mental health facility, Rio Hondo [...]

Virginia Practice Pays $2M For False Documentation

A hospital in Virginia agreed to pay $2,378,731.06 for submitting claims to Medicaid that were improperly modified by the request of the practice’s employee.  Here [...]

Verification of Benefits – Are Payers Bound by Those Calls?

Verification of Benefits (“VOB”) occurs nearly daily, and the practice relies on the information provided by the [...]

G2211 Can be Reported with Preventive Services

CMS Issued Transmittal 13015 on December 23, 2024, covering expanded reporting of G2211.  CMS allows payment for G2211 when certain [...]

Denial$ to Dollars: Writing a Winning Appeal – Mt. Pleasant, MI

The average denial rate is 18.12% for in-network claims based on data reported from the Health [...]

CMS releases the FY 2023 hospital inpatient prospective payment system final rule

It’s that time of year again. On August 1, 2022, the Centers for Medicare & [...]

Medical attorney says more people receiving Covid vaccine bills is a disturbing trend

FOX 2 – If you got your Covid vaccine – did you get a bill [...]

Inside Track: Attorney turns medical problem into career

Joe Rivet inadvertently catapulted himself into the health care industry as a teenager and has [...]

Joe Rivet Recognized by Lawyers of Distinction

Joseph L. Rivet, Esq., CCS-P, CPC, CPMA, CEMC, CHRC, CHPC, CHEP, CHC, CICA, CAC, CACO [...]

Rivet Health Law’s Joe Rivet joins WGVU Public Media

Rivet Health Law’s Joe Rivet joins TMS to talk about Michigan’s new Surprise Billing law, [...]