We approach healthcare law with a multi-disciplinary mindset from professionals with clinical and in-house industry experience
ABOUT US
Marting Law was founded in 2020 as a sole proprietorship by attorney Richelle Marting to offer a service that would combine expertise in law and reimbursement systems to support healthcare professionals and facilities. The need for this niche skill set became apparent quickly, and by 2023 Marting Law, LLC had been formed and grown to two healthcare attorneys. The team has rapidly, but strategically grown with a focus on high value services from highly qualified and passionate professionals dedicated to giving our clients the advocacy they deserve.
Clients and Services
Healthcare Professionals and Facilities
We are a resource for multispecialty professional practices and facilities offering advice and solutions including proactive education and training, corporate compliance support, fractional general counsel services, employment law support, contract management, managed care contracting support, health information management consultancy, and complex claims appeals.
Litigation Support
Our team provides support to other attorneys in consulting and expert witness capacities to help identify potential claims during dispute resolution or litigation, guide counsel during case pre-filing case due diligence, draft or edit pleadings and discovery, review discovery, or preparing formal opinions. Our team has supported other attorneys as coding, documentation, or government program rules experts during administrative hearings; offered expert testimony on matters ranging from HIPAA event, reasonableness of fees in personal injury or workers' compensation matters, payer-provider audit or contract disputes, and medical record documentation standards. Our highly qualified team has further supported clients during extensive discovery phases of disputes to compile documents for production during arbitration or litigation.
Managed Care Contract Consulting
Healthcare professionals and facilities may not have full-time, in-house managed care contracting support or may have internal resources that can benefit from additional third party guidance or support on contracting issues. We offer a team-based approach to supporting managed care contracting. By leveraging a team of professionals to support your managed care contracting, we can offer advice on contract language, help communicate concerns about payer policy changes, support negotiations through well reasoned legal analysis, and formulate step-by-step plans for managing adverse payer processes.
Policies and Procedures
With more than 1,000 policies developed for healthcare professionals and facilities, we alleviate the burden of establishing written procedures for our clients by helping draft and implement policies for health information management, compliance, privacy, revenue cycle, or human resources. Our team offers a variety of workforce training services to ensure your staff are kept apprised of critical policy updates.
Corporate Compliance
Our team has extensive experience in corporate compliance program design and implementation with a focus on components unique to the healthcare industry. We have multiple former compliance and privacy officers and numerous registered health information administrators ready to offer support with compliance program implementation, fractional compliance officer services, compliance event advice to investigate and document potential issues, and navigate potential reporting obligations.
Employment Law
Employment law and human resources matters have unique nuances in the healthcare industry. Our attorneys offer advice on employee manuals, employment policies, employee education, navigating and carefully documenting disciplinary issues, termination matters, harassment and discrimination complaint notices from state or federal agencies, FMLA support, and unemployment denial responses to state agencies.
Health Information Management Consultancy
Our team includes three prior hospital or ASC health information management directors who are also RHIAs. We not only know how to advise on HIM issues, but we know how to implement and troubleshoot them. We support facilities with fractional or prn HIM support during internal staff absences or on an ongoing basis to support a range of HIM activities. Our prior projects include EMR conversion, analysis of payer underpayments, guidance on electronic form development, chargemaster analysis, and release of information guidance.
Claims Appeals
As third party payer denials, pre- and post-payment claim reviews and audit activity increase, our experienced RHIAs and certified coders offer support with the increasing burden to review payer findings and help prepare winning appeal letters. We provide insight into trends that may illuminate opportunities for internal education, and can help communicate growing issues to facilities' managed care contracting or other teams that may warrant analysis, investigation, or escalation. Our team assists both on temporary prn projects or in longer term fractional appeals support.
Workers' Compensation Underpayments
Our team understands state laws for healthcare professionals' and facilities' payments when rendering care to injured workers. We help analyze payments received against those rules or applicable contract rates and pursue gaps between amounts paid and rates expected.
Results
Recent News
21
MAR
Marting Law attorney Richelle Marting was featured on National Public Radio’s story “For Her Head Cold, Insurer Coughed Up $25,865”
2023
Thompson Reuters announces Richelle Marting as a 2023 Rising Star in its Kansas and Missouri Superlawyers awards.
2023
Marting Law team joins AHIMA's Federal Trade Commission Health Breach Notification Proposed Rule Comment Workgroup; Micro-credential Committee for Information Blocking Credential; Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) Health Data, Technology, and Interoperability: Certification Program Updates, Algorithm Transparency, and Information Sharing (HTI-1) Proposed Rule Ad Hoc Workgroup; Office for Civil Rights HIPAA Proposed Rule on Reproductive Health Ad Hoc Workgroup; Certification Item Development Ad Hoc Team.
2023
Heartland Telehealth Resource Center's Telehealth Unmuted podcast features attorney Richelle Marting.
2023
Core CDI Reimaged interviews Richelle Marting for its clinical documentation improvement podcast.
14
MAR
Richelle Marting is appointed to AHIMA’s Advocacy and Policy Council for 2022