Fast Facts: South Carolina’s Anti-Competitive Certificate of Need (CON) Laws

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Fast Facts · May 11, 2021

Download this report.  Since 1971, South Carolina has been among the states that have restricted supply of healthcare services through Certificate of Need, or CON, laws. Rather than market demand determining the supply, under CON laws, clinicians and medical facilities must seek approval from the state before purchasing or expanding services they provide to patients.

Direct Primary Care: “Innovating Backwards”

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Fast Facts · April 28, 2017

What is Direct Primary Care? According to Dr. Jerome Aya-ay, a family-medicine physician with offices in Greenville, Spartanburg and Columbia, Direct Primary Care (DPC) is very simple: “It is a relationship between a patient and their physician.” For a flat, monthly fee (often called membership dues), patients receive preventative and diagnostic medical care. Unlike some

Healthcare Industry Update 2016

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Fast Facts · August 17, 2016

“Right to Try” and “Volunteer Care” are bipartisan, common sense pieces of legislation drawn from experiences in other states that are aimed at lending a hand to the most vulnerable among us, when they need it most. Below is a brief update explaining how these new laws work. Right to Try In June, Governor Haley

The Right to Try

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Fast Facts · February 4, 2016

There is a way to provide terminally ill South Carolinians with the safe, FDA approved drugs they need.