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From Charleston City Paper: Clay Middleton–June 22, 2011 The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act passed last year by Congress requires all states to set up a health insurance exchange program. While South Carolina is one of 26 states to sue the federal government over this law, it does not prevent these states from working…
From Greenville Online: BY LIV OSBY • STAFF WRITER • PUBLISHED: JUNE 15. 2011 2:00AM Medicaid services will continue through the rest of the fiscal year now that the State Budget and Control Board has voted to fund the Department of Health and Human Services’ remaining budget shortfall. Last fall, DHHS said it would have to…
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 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…
From The Spartanburg Herald-Journal: State Has Taken Millions In Federal Health-Care Cash By Stephen Largen [email protected] Published: Sunday, May 22, 2011 at 3:15 a.m. As South Carolina fights in the courts of law and public opinion to stop the implementation of the federal health care law passed last year, the state is caught in a…
Opponents of Health Care Reform Preach Free-Market Solutions While Obstructing A Free, Competitive Market for Health Insurance From The Spartanburg Herald-Journal: By Jason Spencer [email protected] Published: Friday, April 15, 2011 COLUMBIA — The future of health care reform in South Carolina might include insurance marketplaces as required by federal law, but this state can’t afford…
Dr. David Cull has invented a device that is aimed at restricting constant high blood flow created from arteries being grafted to veins in the arms of dialysis patients. Wednesday, Mar. 23, 2011 By JAMES ROSEN – McClatchy Newspapers WASHINGTON — The good doctor was frustrated. Dr. David Cull, a prominent vascular surgeon in Greenville,…
An exclusive from The State: By JOHN O’CONNOR Friday, Mar. 11, 2011 S.C. hospitals, doctors and other health care businesses could cut 5,000 jobs if legislators approve a proposal to reduce what medical providers are paid to treat poor and disabled patients, according to a University of South Carolina study. A spending plan for the…
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…
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