Bright Hospice Care LLC

Primary specialty

Community Based Hospice Care AgencyTaxonomy code 251G00000X

Legal business name

BRIGHT HOSPICE CARE LLC

Practice address

624 S Milledge Ave Ste 101
Athens, GA 30605-5811

Phone

(706) 419-9200

NPI assigned

Aug 24, 2018

Organization subpart

No

Registry information is reported by the provider to CMS and is not verified. About this source

Authorized official

Name

Dr. Marcus Kimsey

Title

President

Phone

(478) 256-4912

Specialties & licenses 1

Addresses

Other names 1

• Family Hospice Doing business as

Medicare fee-for-service enrollment

Enrolled in GA

Enrollment records 1

Hospice certification: CCN 851521

Legal name

BRIGHT HOSPICE CARE LLC

Doing business as

FAMILY HOSPICE

Certification status

Active

Provider type (POS)

Hospice

Participating since

Jan 28, 2020

Last certification

Dec 31, 2019

Ownership / control type

Proprietary - Individual

Organization structure

LLC

Incorporated

Jul 8, 2018 in GA

Enrollment address

1550 Timothy Rd
Ste 203
Athens, GA 30606-7835

Listed as

Family HospiceCCN 851521

Ownership

For-Profit

Certified

Jan 28, 2020

Medicare certification status

ActiveFrom the Provider of Services file

These CMS records do not include an NPI. They are shown because their name and street address match this provider’s.

CLIA laboratory certificates

Locations

All disclosed owners & managing parties 13

As disclosed on the Medicare enrollment (CMS All Owners files). Individuals include officers, directors and managing employees, who may not hold ownership.

Owners & managing parties with NPI records 1

Owners and managing parties disclosed on this facility’s Medicare enrollment that are themselves Medicare-enrolled.

• Stephen K Lucas, MD

  • Pulmonary Disease Physician
  • Athens, GA
  • NPI 1346235074

  Contracted Managing Employee

  CMS ownership

Facilities with the same owner 3

Facilities that share an organizational owner with 5% or greater ownership or operational control.

• Angel Heart Hospice, LLC

  • Community Based Hospice Care Agency
  • Marietta, GA
  • NPI 1700402443

  Family Hospice LLC, The 2021 Mark Kimsey Family Trust Dated June 30, 2021, The Draughon Family Trust Dated January 22, 2021

  CMS ownership
• Family Hospice Macon, LLC

  • Community Based Hospice Care Agency
  • Macon, GA
  • NPI 1619667300

  Family Hospice LLC, The 2021 Mark Kimsey Family Trust Dated June 30, 2021, The Draughon Family Trust Dated January 22, 2021

  CMS ownership
• Family Hospice of Greenville, LLC

  • Community Based Hospice Care Agency
  • Greenville, SC
  • NPI 1801572235

  Family Hospice LLC, The 2021 Mark Kimsey Family Trust Dated June 30, 2021, The Draughon Family Trust Dated January 22, 2021

  CMS ownership

Affiliated clinicians 1

Clinicians who list this facility as an affiliation in Medicare Care Compare.

• Nehal Kireet Bhatt, M.D.

  • Pulmonary Disease Physician
  • Athens, GA
  • NPI 1255406377

  Hospice

  Care Compare affiliation

The complete NPPES record for this NPI in the NPI Registry API format.

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            "city": "ATHENS",
            "state": "GA",
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• Candice Leanne Bridges, PTA
• Matthew Taylor Bridges, PHARM.D.
• Phillip Hudson Bridges, MD
• Laura Briggs
• Bright Awakenings Counseling, LLC
• Charissa Bright, LCSW
• Jerry Brinegar, LMFT
• Maegan Brinkley
• Britedent Iya PC
• Shavanti Brittain, LPC, CADC II

• Community Based Hospice Care Agency in Athens, GA
• Providers in Athens, GA by specialty
• Community Based Hospice Care Agency in Georgia

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• Medicare enrollment (CMS PECOS): enrollments, PAC IDs and benefit reassignments; facility enrollments, owners and changes of ownership; Provider of Services certification data.
• Medicare Care Compare (CMS): clinician profile, group practices, facility affiliations, MIPS scores and star ratings.
• National Provider Directory (CMS): practice roles, locations, licenses, networks and endpoints.

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