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. FULL STORY »
The Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, has named Dr. Patrick Cawley VP of clinical operations and executive director of the Medical University Hospital Authority, replacing CEO Stuart Smith, who recently retired. FULL STORY »
State lawmakers want to expand telemedicine because they see it as a potential fix for some of South Carolina's health problems. Telemedicine, they say, offers the chance to give specialized medical care to poor residents in rural areas—people who need it the most but don't have access to it. FULL STORY »
The Food and Drug Administration is warning doctors that a compounding pharmacy is recalling dozens of lots of the Roche drug Avastin after receiving reports of eye infections among patients. FULL STORY »
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A Mount Pleasant, S.C., doctor says a controversial therapy reduces the effects of post traumatic stress disorder at a greater rate than traditional treatments. His therapy? A party drug called ecstasy. FULL STORY »
Insurer WellCare Health Plans, Tampa, Fla., closed on a previously announced deal to acquire the South Carolina Medicaid business of UnitedHealth Group for undisclosed terms. The South Carolina Department of Insurance valued the company at $27 million in approving the deal. FULL STORY »
The government's ongoing probe of hospitals and physicians overbilling Medicare for the breast-cancer drug Herceptin found errors in more than three-quarters of all claims that it audited. FULL STORY »
WellCare Health Plans, Tampa, Fla., has completed its acquisition of Easy Choice Health Plan, a Long Beach, Calif., Medicare Advantage insurer. FULL STORY »
WellCare Health Plans, a Tampa, Fla.-based Medicaid and Medicare insurance company, said it agreed to acquire UnitedHealth Group's South Carolina Medicaid business. FULL STORY »
Altec Medical, Easley, S.C., will pay a fine of $2 million and forfeit another $1 million after the corporation pleaded guilty to buying pharmaceuticals from a gray-market supplier and then reintroducing them into the U.S. drug market for sale at retail pharmacies. FULL STORY »
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