SC to cut payments to urban hospitals, send more to rural facilities [The State (Columbia, S.C.)]
By Adam Beam, The State (Columbia, S.C.) | |
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"We've long known that rural hospitals face challenges that larger hospitals don't, and now, for the first time ever, the state of
Last year,
Keck estimates that will cost about
"The smaller hospitals have suffered at the hands of the bigger hospitals for years, and we have to start to reverse that," he said.
But those payments, part of the state's
But the
"If we don't expand
But Keck said the federal payments to hospitals will not decrease until 2017. Even then, many more South Carolinians will be able to buy subsidized health insurance from federal health exchanges.
"They made a backroom deal with the president," Keck said. "And now the hospitals who got snookered ... are coming to
House Republicans have said they will not expand
But Senate Finance chairman
Reach Beam at (803) 386-7038.
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