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From American Medical News: Gov. Nikki Haley’s email influence flap sheds light on the struggle of states that don’t want to implement reform themselves but don’t want federal intervention. By Doug Trapp Jan. 9, 2012 A South Carolina state commission concluded in late 2011 that neither a state nor a federal health insurance exchange is…
From The Post & Courier: By Renee Dudley [email protected] Friday, November 18, 2011 South Carolina should not manage its own “exchange” where health coverage will be sold once the new federal health care law takes full effect in 2014, a state panel is expected to recommend today. The S.C. Health Planning Committee wants private companies…
From Kaiser Health News: S.C.’s top health official, Anthony Keck, and Gov. Nikki Haley, not fans of the 2010 health law, are likely to decide to let the federal government run the state’s exchange. (Haley photo by MaryAustinPhoto via Flickr) By Christopher Weaver Nov 15, 2011 South Carolina’s top health official will recommend this week…
From The Aiken Standard: Tony Keck 10/27/2011 11:55 AM Health and Human Services Director Tony Keck’s has made a request to add $35 million to the agency’s budget next year in an effort to cover 70,000 children under Medicaid. While that seems like an awful lot of money and government healthcare, Keck is correct in…
From The Post & Courier: Payment to Roper St. Francis Healthcare’s Bon Secours St. Francis Hospital in West Ashley (left) and East Cooper Medical Center in Mount Pleasant are among the facilities that will see their payments for providing uncompensated care cut by the state. BY RENEE DUDLEY [email protected] Monday, November 7, 2011 About a third…
From The Associated Press: Tuesday, Oct. 25, 2011 COLUMBIA, S.C. — South Carolina’s Medicaid agency may reinstate paying for tooth extractions in 2012-13. The state Department of Health and Human Services cut emergency dental service for adults last spring as it sought to close a $228 million deficit. Federal law doesn’t require state Medicaid programs…
From The Associated Press: By Seanna Adcox Monday, Oct. 24, 2011 COLUMBIA, S.C. — The director of South Carolina’s Medicaid agency wants to make it easier for low-income children who already qualify for health care coverage to enroll, saying Monday it’s a conservative step toward meeting a huge unfunded liability looming in 2014. Director Tony…
From The State: By GINA SMITH – [email protected] Gov. Nikki Haley said she will let federal deadlines slip by and not accept millions in federal funds to help South Carolina set up its own health insurance exchange. Health insurance exchanges, the centerpiece of federal health care reform, are online marketplaces, to be set up by…
From The Spartanburg Herald Journal: “This is going to mean instead of the fox guarding the henhouse, the fox would be designing the henhouse.” -Rep. Harold Mitchell By Stephen Largen [email protected] COLUMBIA — Gov. Nikki Haley has decided South Carolina won’t pursue any more grant money from the federal health care overhaul to fund a…
From The Post & Courier: Panel’s delay could limit health care options Federally managed insurance marketplace looking likely By Renee Dudley [email protected] Friday, July 1, 2011 COLUMBIA — A panel charged with shaping how South Carolina implements federal health care reform met Thursday but postponed discussion of key decisions — a delay that has some…
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