RESERVATIONHospital could lose Medicare, state Medicaid funding after officials issue second warning

[Omaha Steve]

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POSTED: SATURDAY, JULY 11, 2015 12:30 AM

WINNEBAGO, Neb. (AP) — Officials have warned a northeast Nebraska hospital for the second time in two years that its Medicare and Nebraska Medicaid funding will be pulled unless the hospital adequately addresses treatment deficiencies.

Spokesman Mike Fierberg for the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services said Friday that he couldn’t release the May survey report that led to the warning sent Wednesday to the Winnebago Indian Health Service Hospital.

But the report noted “immediate jeopardy to patients,” Fierberg said.

A spokeswoman for the Indian Health Service didn’t immediately answer questions posed by The Associated Press. A message left for a hospital representative was not immediately returned.

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