South Carolina ASCs Have a Number of Changing Regulatory Requirements Pending – Stakeholders Should Take Notice -
In May of 2023, the South Carolina General Assembly unanimously passed S. 164 and the Governor signed the...more
The 2023 legislative session has seen the passage of several bills that garnered a great deal of attention in the media, but the SC General Assembly passed a number of other noteworthy pieces of legislation that were not as...more
Hosts Matthew and Tina welcome their colleagues, Maynard Nexsen health care attorneys Jennifer Hollingsworth and Ralph Barbier, for a deep dive into the changing regulatory framework shaping the public and private sectors of...more
In some ways not surprising given the amount of attention South Carolina’s Certificate of Need (“CON”) laws received during the last session of the General Assembly, but at the same time long overdue—the state agency...more
As of the end of the legislative session last month, the strong effort to repeal the Certificate of Need Program—CON is the regulatory program by which providers of important healthcare services must first submit an...more
On Episode 98 of Taking the Pulse, Nexsen Pruet attorneys Ralph Barbier and Jennifer Hollingsworth dive in to the history and the tentative future of Certificate of Need programs across the nation and in South Carolina....more
The current version of South Carolina Senate Bill S. 290 that repeals the South Carolina Certificate of Need (CON) program, except for nursing homes, is now pending in the House Ways and Means Committee. If CON repeal...more
On December 1, 2021, the South Carolina Supreme Court answered three certified questions from the United States District Court for the District of South Carolina that provide clarification on the legal rights stemming from...more
As the Charleston Post and Courier reported on September 11 in an in-depth article by Avery Wilks, employees at the South Carolina Department of Health and Environmental Control (DHEC) have been and continue to be under...more
No stranger to scrutiny, the State’s largest administrative agency was the subject of legislation in both chambers with support from both parties that proposed massive changes to the South Carolina Department of Health and...more
Perhaps the most significant court decision in 2020 directly impacting the South Carolina hospital industry was issued in late 2020, when Judge Ralph King Anderson III of the South Carolina Administrative Law Court denied...more
It was a rare sight appearing before the South Carolina General Assembly during the 2012 legislative session. The South Carolina Hospital Association, the South Carolina Association for Justice (Trial Lawyers), and the South...more
On March 13, 2020, in accordance with Sections 1-3-420 and 25-1-440 of the South Carolina Code of Laws, as amended, Governor Henry McMaster declared a state of emergency due to the public health emergency caused by the 2019...more