Atlanta home health provider can keep receiving Medicare
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Posted 11:24AM on Friday, August 30, 2002
ATLANTA - The government will allow metro Atlanta's largest home health provider to keep receiving funds from Medicare and Medicaid programs. <br>
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Officials accepted a corrective action plan provided by Visiting Nurse Health System. <br>
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But the health insurance specialist for the U.S. Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services -- Bill Blanton -- says the nonprofit agency still must correct serious problems with nursing services and record keeping. <br>
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Federal inspectors had questioned several cases of inadequate patient care and incomplete clinical records and threatened to eliminate funding for the company that provides care to more than 20,000 patients a year in 26 Georgia counties. <br>
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Visiting Health Health System Care had been given a deadline of Saturday to provide the plan.