A leading limited government advocacy group is blasting S.C. Gov. Nikki Haley for her support of $83 million in new government health care spending for the coming fiscal year.
“In the middle of an intense battle to protect our state from ObamaCare, our flank is ambushed by Governor Haley,” says Talbert Black, leader of the Palmetto [...]
SC Fiscal Conservatives Assail “HaleyCare”
“Columbia, We Have A Problem”
MEDICAID DEFICIT THREATENS TO THROW STATE BUDGET OUT OF BALANCE
“Never again,” S.C. Gov. Nikki Haley vowed last year when her health care agency came before a state budget panel begging for a $100 million bailout (the agency’s total bailout tab wound up being north of $225 million when it was all said and done).
Yet only [...]
SCDHHS Announces Express Lane Eligibility
COLUMBIA, S.C.— Approximately 65,000 children who are currently eligible for South Carolina’s Medicaid program but are not signed up will be enrolled and immediately able to receive services through a coordinated care health plan, the South Carolina Department of Health Human Services (SCDHHS) announced Thursday.
Beginning this week, families who receive benefits from the Department of [...]
Soaring Medicaid Rolls: Nikki Haley’s “Priority”
GOVERNOR SPENDS $30 MILLION TO FURTHER INFLATE SOUTH CAROLINA’S MEDICAID POPULATION
S.C. Gov. Nikki Haley’s Department of Health and Human Services (SCDHHS) released a statement earlier this week that should make every South Carolina taxpayer sick to their stomach.
In its statement, SCDHHS boasted that it had “met its promise” to add 65,000 eligible” children to South [...]
SC Medicaid To Fight Lawsuit Filed By Drugmaker
COLUMBIA, S.C. — The South Carolina Department of Health and Human Services (SCDHHS) announced today it will vigorously defend itself against a lawsuit filed in federal court earlier this month by drug manufacturer K-V Pharmaceutical Co.
K-V also filed separate suits against Georgia and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.
At the center of the controversy is [...]
SC Medicaid Fraud: How Much Does It Cost Us?
… AND IS HALEY’S AGENCY COOKING THE BOOKS?
According to the S.C. Department of Health and Human Services (SCDHHS), the state’s increasingly costly Medicaid program “may” have issued as much as $406 million worth of improper payments between October 2009 to September 2010.
This bombshell announcement – made to little fanfare in January of this year – [...]
