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Fresenius Bringing 120 Jobs to Kennesaw

A new center on Vaughn Road will support the medical care company's dialysis services in the Southeast.

Updated 5:10 p.m.

The Vaughn Road center, called the Peachtree Billing and Verification Office, should open in early March, according to Fresenius' Robert Horton.

New hires will fill 80 percent to 90 percent of the jobs, but the company has filled most of the initial openings, said Horton, the senior director of the new office. His information came through a company spokeswoman.

The center offers a combination of entry-level and management positions for people with experience in medical billing and insurance verification. More of those jobs should be available as the center expands over the next year.

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You can check on job openings in Kennesaw and throughout Fresenius at www.fmcna.com/careers.

Original Report

Kennesaw will gain 75 to 80 jobs initially and 120 jobs eventually with the opening of a new office of dialysis company Fresenius Medical Care.

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The company is opening an office at 2015 Vaughn Rd. to handle billing and insurance verification for its dialysis services in the Southeast.

Chairman Tim Lee announced the expansion during his State of the County address Monday morning at a breakfast meeting of the Cobb Chamber of Commerce at the .

“It is extremely exciting to see their corporate presence grow in Cobb County,” Lee said.

Fresenius is the largest provider of dialysis products and services and thus fits two of the four core clusters the Cobb Chamber has identified as targets for economic development in its (Economic Development for a Growing Economy) initiative:

  • Health care.
  • Professional and business services.

“Fresenius is the type of company that we not only want to recruit into our community, but the type of company we want to see thrive and expand,” Brooks Mathis, the Chamber’s vice president of economic development, said in a news release.

The company already has 260 employees at two corporate offices in Cobb County and has four clinics in Austell, Smyrna and Marietta.

Fresenius plans a fifth Cobb clinic in Acworth in the spring.

“We are excited to expand our footprint in Cobb County and the opportunity to assemble a talented team,” said Bill Crawford, the company’s finance vice president for its East Division.

Fresenius has more than 2,900 clinics worldwide, including 1,800 dialysis facilities in the United States.

The company will renovate and move into 15,000 square feet of leased office space in Kennesaw, Lee said.

Cobb is not offering any incentives for Fresenius to expand in the county, Chamber spokeswoman Amy Selby said, but the company will be eligible for state tax credits worth $1,250 per job it creates as long as the total is at least 25 new jobs.

Lee said Fresenius’ choice of Cobb for its expansion shows that the county continues to offer a strong mix of low taxes, reliable infrastructure and high quality of life.


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