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Health Agency To Halt Some Cuts In Services To Poor By JOHN O’CONNOR [email protected] Columbia resident Carolyn Stover said she was dismayed to learn last month that the state was cutting hospice care for her mother, Nellie. Monday, Stover was thanking God and citing the power of prayer after state officials said they will continue…
From The Associated Press: Published: Tuesday, 11 Jan 2011 | 5:24 PM ET COLUMBIA, S.C. – Most Medicaid patients in South Carolina will be required to choose a managed care plan starting this spring, a state agency announced Tuesday. With few exceptions, the state Department of Health and Human Services is getting rid of the…
From The Post & Courier: By Renee Dudley [email protected] Sunday, January 9, 2011 Just more than 100 South Carolinians are enrolled in the federally-run insurance plan for adults with so-called “pre-existing” medical conditions, according to the latest data. Some advocates for the uninsured said last week that figure is far below their expectations. “Clearly there…
South Carolinians, please urge your congressman to preserve the new Affordable Care Act ahead of next week’s House vote! The new health care law contains too much good for us to abandon it. See below what South Carolina would lose with its repeal, and then please contact your congressman! Rep. Tim Scott (SC-01) – (202)…
The late Rep. Cathy Harvin of Summerton, S.C. New S.C. Law Protects Choice Of Doctor For Seriously Ill By JIM DAVENPORT – Dec 29, 2010 By The Associated Press COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — South Carolinians with serious medical conditions get a new benefit Saturday with a health insurance law that bars insurers from charging them…
Andy Burriss [email protected] – – Nurse Jill Ray checks a patient on Monday. SC Hospices Say Medicaid Cuts Would Be ‘Devastating’ By Andrew Dys – Herald Columnist ROCK HILL — Somebody gets “hospice,” they get dignity for the final days, or weeks, and rarely, months. Yet if proposed cuts in South Carolina’s Medicaid program go…
SC Medicaid Plan: End Adult Dental, Hospice Care, Etc. By JIM DAVENPORT Associated Press The state’s Medicaid program plans to stop paying for adult dental, vision and hospice services and cut home health visits by a third for the state’s elderly and disabled in February. Meanwhile, the agency plans to eliminate routine infant circumcisions, cut…
James Rosen | McClatchy Newspapers last updated: December 03, 2010 04:44:22 PM WASHINGTON — As many as 58,000 small businesses in South Carolina may qualify for a new federal tax credit for providing health insurance to their employees, the Treasury Department said Friday. The Internal Revenue Service is sending postcards to the companies, urging them…
With revenues reduced to a trickle, some states are considering drastic measures to balance their budgets. Gov. Rick Perry of Texas has proposed abandoning Medicaid, the federally mandated program that provides health care for the poor. That idea also has its advocates in Florida, Nevada and here in South Carolina. But before ditching Medicaid, let’s…
Need help getting your child covered? Contact our friends below and let them walk you through the CHIP application process. . Palmetto Children’s Health Initiative Linking Every SC Child to an Affordable & Appropriate Medical Home In November 2009, the Palmetto Project announced the launch of a new statewide initiative to link every child under…
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