Javery Pain Institute

Jul 2024

Grand Rapids Pain Management Practice Pays $215,000 To Resolve Allegations Of Falsified Medical Records Monday, February 27, 2023 U.S. Attorney's Office, Western District of Michigan GRAND RAPIDS - U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Michigan Mark Totten announced that Javery Pain Institute, PC, located in Grand Rapids, has agreed to pay $215,000 to resolve allegations that it violated the False Claims Act by submitting claims to Medicare for medically unnecessary moderate sedation services and falsifying medical records to support those claims. "Truthful and accurate medical records are the bedrock of our Medicare system," said U.S. Attorney Mark Totten. "This settlement reflects the commitment of my office in working with our law enforcement partners to protect the Medicare population and maintain the system of trust and accountability necessary between the patient, physician, and federal healthcare programs." The United States alleged that Javery Pain Institute billed Medicare for moderate sedation services in conjunction with certain pain injection procedures when those sedation services did not meet Medicare's medical necessity requirements. After a Medicaid audit discovered this issue, the practice created template language in its electronic medical records to support medical necessity for these services. The practice then used this templated language for some Medicare beneficiaries receiving moderate sedation services to create medical records that contained statements that were not true. Javery Pain Institute used these statements to justify billing Medicare for moderate sedation services. Additionally, on some occasions, the practice billed Medicare for moderate sedation services when the intraservice time for those procedures was less than the ten minutes required to bill for the service. "The alleged submission of false claims for medically unnecessary services and falsifying of documentation to justify those services, undermines our federal health care programs and potentially places patients at risk," said Special Agent in Charge Mario M. Pinto of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office of Inspector General ("HHS-OIG"). "Our agency, working with our law enforcement partners, is committed to working to hold those who seek to defraud federally funded health care programs accountable."

Jun 2024

Dr Javery was very kind and supportive but Heather, his NP, is NOT. She is never friendly and the way she talks to me, I leave sad and depressed feeling. She messed up ordering [or not ordering] my meds repeatedly, including ordering twice the dose of a med [two times] that would have given me kidney failure. When I brought it up, she yelled at me in front of staff and patients, and called me a liar. I brought in proof from the pharmacy at the next visit and showed Dr Javery. She never apologized or accepted responsibility. I spent 6 months having them try multiple treatments that didn't help me. Next was to try the spinal stimulator but Heather decided I wasn't emotionally stable enough to do it and talked Javery into agreeing to her plan to make me switch counselors back to ones I'd used for years in the past and to give me no treatment for 6 months. She even insisted I get a MMPI test when my diagnoses have been the same for 30 years and my psychiatrist wouldn't even do it. When I didn't agree with her ideas, she got me kicked out of the pain clinic. I am greatly disappointed that Javery didn't discuss it with me but listened to her nonsense. I was more emotionally stable at that point than I had been in over a year since a previous doctor had messed up the nerve burning in my neck, leaving me bed bound for 5 months. It's a shame Javery doesn't listen more often to his patients than staff with their own agenda, as it is a shame that MI Pain Consultants is now closing; but it has gone down hill in my opinion since Dr Gostine left. [I went to Gostine for over 15 years]

Jun 2024

I went in to get some physical therapy as my foot was (and still is years later) in a lot of pain. I was hoping to learn exercises and stretches to strengthen my foot so it wouldn't be so painful being on it. Keith Javery walks in and immediately says "So what's your problem? I open up your chart and I see "drugs! Drugs! Warning! Drugs!" So what are you seeking huh?" I had an alcohol problem and have been sober since Jan 25th of 2020 In 2017 I was deemed addicted to drugs for my marijuana use as a teen. Needless to say, I left crying. I hope he goes to jail for malpractice. He does NOT care about his patients and is a slimy disgusting excuse for a person and doesn't deserve to be called DR he has zero respect and takes zero accountability So if you'd like a child to take care of your needs I'd say this is the best place for a toddler to take care of you. STAY AWAY