ABC HOME HEALTH SERVS., INC. v. AETNA LIFE INS. CO.

Civ. A. No. 292-285.

878 F.Supp. 1574 (1995)

ABC HOME HEALTH SERVICES, INC., et al., Plaintiffs, v. AETNA LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY, et al., Defendants.

United States District Court, S.D. Georgia, Brunswick Division.

March 7, 1995.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

James A. Bishop, Bishop & Lindberg, Lisa Sue Godbey, Wallace Eugene Harrell, Gilbert, Harrell, Gilbert et al., Brunswick, GA, H. Wayne Phears, Jenny E. Jensen, Phears & Moldovan, Norcross, GA, Carl Foster Lindberg, Brunswick, GA, for ABC Home Health Services, Inc.

James A. Bishop, Bishop & Lindberg, Brunswick, GA, H. Wayne Phears, Jenny E. Jensen, Phears & Moldovan, Norcross, GA, Carl Foster Lindberg, Brunswick, GA, for ABC Home Health Services of Alabama, Inc., ABC Home Health Services of California, Inc., ABC Home Health Services of Colorado, Inc., North Broward Home Health, Inc., Home Health Technicians and Hospice of Atlanta, Inc., ABC Home Health Services of Valdosta, Inc., ABC Home Health Services of Illinois, Inc., ABC Home Health Services of Michigan, Inc., ABC Home Health Services of New Mexico, Inc., ABC Home Health Services of Pennsylvania, Inc., ABC Home Health Services of Tennessee, Inc., ABC Home Health Services of Virginia, Inc., ABC Home Health Services of Texas, Inc., ABC Home Health Services of Florida, Inc., ABC Home Health Services of Arkansas, Inc.

Lawrence B. Lee, Savannah, GA, F. Richard Waitsman, U.S. Dept. of Health & Human Services — Office of Gen. Counsel, Atlanta, GA, Thomas C. Dearing, Thomas B. Constantine, Leboeuf, Lamb, Greene & Macrae, Jacksonville, FL, for Aetna Life Ins. Co., Glenn Voigt.

Lawrence B. Lee, Savannah, GA, F. Richard Waitsman, Lana S. Sensenig, U.S. Dept. of Health & Human Services — Office of Gen. Counsel, Atlanta, GA, for Louis W. Sullivan.

Phillip A. Bradley, Long, Aldridge & Norman, Atlanta, GA, William J. Cooney, Augusta, GA, for Healthmaster, Inc., Queen Bee Travel, Inc., Jeanette Garrison, Joseph Garrison.

William J. Cooney, Augusta, GA, for Master Health Plan, Inc.

Lawrence B. Lee, Savannah, GA, for the U.S.

Phillip A. Bradley, Long, Aldridge & Norman, Atlanta, GA, for Lynette Bragg, Carolyn Brantley, Mike Haddle.

Joseph Hixon Huff, Kilpatrick & Cody, Augusta, GA, Phillip A. Bradley, Long, Aldridge & Norman, Joe D. Whitley, James F. Bogan, III, Kilpatrick & Cody, Atlanta, GA, for Dennis Kelly.

Phillip A. Bradley, Long, Aldridge & Norman, Atlanta, GA, Edward Donald Tolley, Cook, Noell, Tolley & Aldridge, Athens, GA, for Noel O. Ingram.

Jesse Watson Hill, Powell, Goldstein, Frazer & Murphy, Atlanta, GA, Phillip A. Bradley, Long, Aldridge & Norman, Kimberly C. Harris, Powell, Goldstein, Frazer & Murphy, Atlanta, GA, for Cassandra Leverette.

William C. Joy, Mary Foil Russell, Atlanta, GA, for James G. Ledbetter, Richard Minter, Martin J. Rotter, Susie Woods.

Kimberly C. Harris, Powell, Goldstein, Frazer & Murphy, Atlanta, GA, for Susan M. Bruce, H. Dean Beasley.


ORDER

ALAIMO, District Judge.

In this action, Plaintiff, ABC Home Health Services, Inc. ("ABC"), contends that its fiscal intermediary under the Medicare program, Aetna Life Insurance Company ("Aetna"), sought to destroy ABC through the Medicare audit process. Specifically, ABC claims that Aetna's audit decisions were biased, thereby depriving ABC of its right to a fair and impartial intermediary. As relief, ABC has requested (1) a new fiscal intermediary...

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