South Carolina news and information

Cardiologists and the Infirmary Health System in Mobile, Ala., are accused of needlessly exposing patients to radiation in a nine-year-running kickback scheme tainting an estimated $522 million in Medicare, Medicaid and Tricare reimbursements since 2004.
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Health officials in South Carolina are turning straight to the state's Supreme Court to determine if Republican Gov. Nikki Haley had legal grounds to suspend the state's certificate-of-need program. She used her veto power last week to cut the $1.7 million in funding needed to run the program.
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The coming weeks are shaping up to be a big deal for states still on the fence regarding Medicaid expansion.
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South Carolina senators defeated another attempt by Democrats to extend Medicaid coverage under the federal healthcare law.
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As many state legislative sessions have finished or are nearing completion, advocates of expanding Medicaid eligibility are looking at their next steps.
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The next time whistle-blower attorney Joel Androphy sits down for a settlement conference with hospital lawyers, he'll have a potent new tool in his arsenal: last week's $39 million Stark law jury verdict against Tuomey Healthcare System in Sumter, S.C.
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New Medicaid research that garnered widespread attention from national health policy experts has not yet affected the expansion debate at the state level, but it could bolster national policy changes in the program.
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South Carolina doctors are closer to being paid for long-distance consulting on cases. The state Senate Medical Affairs Committee unanimously approved a telemedicine bill Thursday and sent it to the full Senate.
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Even with a year's grace period, many providers, payers and health information technology vendors are still running behind schedule for the massive conversion next year to ICD-10 codes.
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Personal information belonging to more than 7,400 veterans in South Carolina may have been compromised when a laptop was stolen in February from the William Jennings Bryan Dorn VA Medical Center in Columbia, S.C.
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