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From The Post and Courier: By Renee Dudley–Friday, June 10, 2011 State Medicaid cuts announced earlier this week will cause Charleston-area hospitals to lose tens of millions of dollars, forcing at least one of them to shed jobs and reduce services, hospital officials said. Reductions announced Monday will cost the Medical University of South Carolina…
From The Washington Post: By Ezra Klein | 04:59 PM ET, 06/09/2011 By Akira Hakuta/The Washington Post “The safer Medicare is, the more endangered Medicaid is,” sighs Sen. Jay Rockefeller. “Reading the tea leaves and being in a lot of meetings over the last couple of days, I worry that people are saying, ‘great, now…
From The Huffington Post: Ron Pollack–06/ 9/11 02:22 PM ET There’s encouraging news out of Atlanta today for all Americans. The third hearing before the court of appeals left me feeling optimistic about the future of the Affordable Care Act. But let’s start from the beginning. There have been approximately two dozen suits filed against…
From The Herald: U.S. Rep. Mick Mulvaney, R-S.C. Jamie Self– Thursday, Jun. 09, 2011 LAKE WYLIE — The debate over how to get the nation’s fiscal house in order – and whether all will carry a fair share of the burden – came to northern York County on Wednesday night at a town hall meeting hosted…
From The Hill: By Sam Baker and Julian Pecquet – 06/08/11 03:29 PM ET Judges in the highest-profile challenge to the healthcare reform law appeared skeptical of the federal government’s defense, according to people who attended oral arguments in the case Wednesday. In nearly three hours of questioning, a three-judge panel of the 11th U.S.…
From The New York Times: By SEAN COLLINS WALSH–June 7, 2011, 6:19 pm Hundreds of members of the nation’s largest nurses’ union demonstrated outside the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and on Capitol Hill on Tuesday. The union, National Nurses United, held the event to promote its “Main Street Contract for the American People,” which aims,…
From Businessweek: By SEANNA ADCOX–COLUMBIA, S.C. South Carolina’s Medicaid agency announced Monday it plans to cut fees paid to doctors, dentists and other medical providers by between 2 percent and 7 percent next month. The announcement follows 3 percent across-the-board cuts enacted in April for those who treat the state’s poor and disabled, expected to…
From GreenvilleOnline.com: By Liv Osby• Staff writer• Published: June 07. 2011 2:00AM Health-care providers across South Carolina will take a hit to their 2012 Medicaid reimbursements, and state officials, providers and advocates for the disabled and elderly disagree on whether that could impact access to care. State officials say access won’t be affected, but some…
From The State: By WAYNE WASHINGTON–Tuesday, Jun. 07, 2011 The state Department of Health and Human Services on Monday announced a second round of cuts in payments to doctors and hospitals who treat the poor and disabled. The state also said it would increase the co-payments that Medicaid patients must pay for their care. The…
From The Post and Courier: By Renee Dudley –Tuesday, June 7, 2011 Medicaid payments to doctors will be reduced by up to 7 percent and patient co-payments for some doctor visits will increase by $1 as the South Carolina Medicaid agency cuts an estimated $125 million in state costs for the fiscal year that begins…
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