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SC Code § 44-6-730 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 44 - Health|Chapter 6 - Department Of Health And Human Services|Section 44-6-730. Promulgation of regulations to implement article and comply with federal law; amendment of state Medicaid plan consistent with article.

 The State Health and Human Services Finance Commission shall promulgate regulations as are necessary for the implementation of this article and as are necessary to comply with federal law. In addition, the commission shall amend the state Medicaid plan in a manner that is consistent with this article.  HISTORY: 1993 Act No. 164, Part II, Section 74A.
SC Code § 44-6-910 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 44 - Health|Chapter 6 - Department Of Health And Human Services|Section 44-6-910. Health facilities recognized and designated as providers for underserved patients; when hospital in urban area considered "rural".

 (A) Federally Qualified Health Centers (FQHC's), Rural Health Clinics (RHC's), and Rural Hospitals are recognized and designated as essential community providers for underserved patients which include Medicaid and Medicare recipients, the underinsured, and the uninsured. These populations require more extensive services by community-based providers, and the FQHC's, RHC's, and Rural Hospitals have extensive experience and knowledge in providing quality, cost-effective care for these populations. The State shall include these essential community providers as contracted entities in any formulation of the state health care system. The inclusion of FQHC's, RHC's, and Rural Hospitals as contracted entities in the state health care system recognizes the importance of these providers to South Carolina and assures that the reimbursement to these essential community providers will be funded through cost-based reimbursement or a capitated fee based on reasonable costs.  (B) A hospital located in an urban area (MSA County), can be considered "rural" for the purposes of the Medicare Rural Hospital Flexibility Program if it meets the following criteria:  (1) enrolled as both a Medicaid and Medicare provider and accepts assignment for all Medicaid and Medicare patients;  (2) provides emergency health care services to indigent patients;  (3) maintains a twenty-four hour emergency room;  (4) staffs fifty or less acute care beds; and  (5) located in a county with twenty-five percent or more rural residents, as defined by the most recent United States decennial census.  HISTORY: 1994 Act No. 497, Part II, Section 82; 2004 Act No. 260, Section 1, eff July 6, 2004.
SC Code § 44-6-1010 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 44 - Health|Chapter 6 - Department Of Health And Human Services|Section 44-6-1010. Pharmacy and Therapeutics Committee established; membership.

 There is created within the Department of Health and Human Services the Pharmacy and Therapeutics Committee. The committee must consist of fifteen members appointed by the director and serving at the pleasure of the director of the department. The members must include eleven physicians and four pharmacists licensed to practice in South Carolina and actively engaged in providing services to the South Carolina Medicaid population. The physicians may include, but are not limited to, doctors who have experience in treating diabetes, cancer, HIV/AIDS, mental illness, and hemophilia and who practice in internal medicine, primary care, and pediatrics.  HISTORY: 2008 Act No. 353, Section 2, Pt 4.C.1, eff July 1, 2008.
SC Code § 44-6-1020 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 44 - Health|Chapter 6 - Department Of Health And Human Services|Section 44-6-1020. Adoption of bylaws; election of chairman and vice chairman; compensation; meetings; public comment on clinical and patient care data from Medicaid providers.

 The committee shall adopt bylaws that include, at a minimum, the length of membership. A chairman and a vice chairman shall be elected on an annual basis from the committee membership. Committee members must not be compensated for service to the committee. However, committee members may be reimbursed for actual and necessary expenses incurred by discharging committee duties in an amount not to exceed the mileage and subsistence amounts allowed by law for members of boards, commissions, and committees. The committee must meet at least quarterly and may meet at other times in the chairman's or the director's discretion. Committee meetings are subject to the provisions of the Freedom of Information Act. The department shall publish notice of regular business meetings of the committee at least thirty days before the meeting. However, the director or chairman may call special meetings of the committee and provide notice as soon as practical. The committee must provide for public comment, including comment on clinical and patient care data from Medicaid providers, representatives of the pharmaceutical industry, and patient advocacy groups. Proprietary information as defined in the trade secret law shall not be discussed. Trade secrets as defined in Section 30-4-40(a)(1) and relevant federal law must not be publicly disclosed.  HISTORY: 2008 Act No. 353, Section 2, Pt 4.C.1, eff July 1, 2008.
SC Code § 44-6-1030 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 44 - Health|Chapter 6 - Department Of Health And Human Services|Section 44-6-1030. Recommendation of therapeutic classes of drugs to be included on preferred drug list.

 The committee must recommend to the department therapeutic classes of drugs that should be included on a preferred drug list. For those recommended classes, the committee shall recommend the drug or drugs considered preferred within that class based on safety and efficacy. In determining safety and efficacy, the committee may consider all submitted public comment or clinical information including, but not limited to, scientific evidence, standards of practice, peer-reviewed medical literature, randomized clinical trials, pharmacoeconomic studies, and outcomes research data. The committee also shall recommend prior authorization criteria for nonpreferred drugs in the recommended therapeutic classes.  HISTORY: 2008 Act No. 353, Section 2, Pt 4.C.1, eff July 1, 2008.
SC Code § 44-6-1040 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 44 - Health|Chapter 6 - Department Of Health And Human Services|Section 44-6-1040. Preferred drug list program; procedures to be included.

 Any preferred drug list program implemented by the department must include:  (1) procedures to ensure that a request for prior authorization that has no material defect or impropriety can be processed within twenty-four hours of receipt;  (2) procedures to allow the prescribing physician to request and receive notice of any delays or negative decision in regard to a prior authorization;  (3) procedures to allow the prescribing physician to request and receive a second review of any denial of a prior authorization request; and  (4) procedures to allow a pharmacist to dispense an emergency, seventy-two hour supply of a drug requiring prior authorization without prior authorization if the pharmacist:  (a) has made a reasonable attempt to contact the physician and request that the prescribing physician secure prior authorization; and  (b) reasonably believes that refusing to dispense a seventy-two-hour supply would unduly burden the Medicaid recipient and produce undesirable health consequences.  HISTORY: 2008 Act No. 353, Section 2, Pt 4.C.1, eff July 1, 2008.
SC Code § 44-6-1050 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 44 - Health|Chapter 6 - Department Of Health And Human Services|Section 44-6-1050. Prior authorization for drug; refills; appeals.

 A grant of prior authorization for a drug is specific to the drug, rather than the actual prescription, and extends to all refills allowed pursuant to the original prescription and to subsequent prescriptions for the same drug at the same dosage provided the time allowed by the prior authorization has not expired. A Medicaid recipient who has been denied prior authorization for a prescribed drug is entitled to appeal this decision through the department's appeals process.  HISTORY: 2008 Act No. 353, Section 2, Pt 4.C.1, eff July 1, 2008.
SC Code § 44-7-10 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 44 - Health|Chapter 7 - Hospitals, Tuberculosis Camps And Health Services Districts|Section 44-7-10. Public hospitals may maintain eye banks.

 Any State, county, district or other public hospital may purchase and provide the necessary facilities and equipment to establish and maintain an eye bank for restoration-of-sight purposes.  HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 32-750; 1956 (49) 1768.
SC Code § 44-7-20 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 44 - Health|Chapter 7 - Hospitals, Tuberculosis Camps And Health Services Districts|Section 44-7-20. Disturbing patients with radios or musical instruments.

 It shall be unlawful for any person to operate any radio or other musical instrument in such a manner that it annoys or disturbs any patient confined to a hospital or sanitarium. Any person violating the provisions of this section shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and, upon conviction thereof, shall be subject to a fine of not more than one hundred dollars or imprisonment of not more than thirty days.  HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 32-751; 1952 Code Section 32-751; 1942 Code Section 1396-1; 1939 (41) 410.
SC Code § 44-7-30 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 44 - Health|Chapter 7 - Hospitals, Tuberculosis Camps And Health Services Districts|Section 44-7-30. Defrauding hospitals.

 Any person who shall:  (1) At any hospital order and receive or cause to be furnished any food or accommodation based upon contract with intent to defraud the owner or proprietor of such hospital out of the value or price of such food or accommodation contract;  (2) Obtain credit at any hospital by the use of any false pretense or device or by fraudulently depositing at such hospital any baggage or property of less value than the amount of such credit or of the bill by such person incurred, unless credit be given by express agreement; or  (3) After obtaining creditor accommodation based upon contract at any hospital, surreptitiously remove his baggage or property therefrom;  Shall be guilty of a misdemeanor. Proof (a) that lodging, food or other accommodation based upon contract was obtained by false pretense or by false or fictitious show or pretense of baggage, (b) that a person absconded without paying or offering to pay for such food, lodging or other accommodation based upon contract or (c) that a person surreptitiously removed or attempted to remove his baggage shall be prima facie proof of the fraudulent intent mentioned in this section. Any person convicted of violating the provisions of this section shall pay a fine of not more than fifty dollars or be imprisoned for not more than thirty days, in the discretion of the magistrate.  The provisions of this section shall not include the fees of physicians and surgeons.  HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 32-752; 1952 Code Section 32-752; 1942 Code Section 1219; 1932 Code Section 1219; Cr. C. '22 Section 107; Cr. C. '12 Section 300; 1911 (27) 150; 1917 (30) 165; 1939 (41) 115; 1940 (41) 1885.
SC Code § 44-7-40 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 44 - Health|Chapter 7 - Hospitals, Tuberculosis Camps And Health Services Districts|Section 44-7-40. Conveyance to Federal Government of lands for veterans' hospital.

 The governing body of any county in this State in which the United States Government decides to locate or build a hospital for veterans may, by resolution passed by a majority vote of such body, convey to the United States Government in fee simple, free of all encumbrances, any lands now owned or hereafter acquired by it for the use and benefit of such veterans' hospital, such conveyance to be without consideration and as a gift to the United States Government. Such deed of conveyance if made under the provisions of this section shall be signed by such officer or officers of the county as the resolution duly passed by such governing body may prescribe or provide. A certified copy of such resolution shall be recorded with the deed of conveyance so made.  HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 32-754; 1952 Code Section 32-754; 1942 Code Section 5148; 1932 Code Section 5148; 1931 (37) 334.
SC Code § 44-7-50 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 44 - Health|Chapter 7 - Hospitals, Tuberculosis Camps And Health Services Districts|Section 44-7-50. Modification of doctrines of charitable and sovereign immunity as they relate to hospitals and other medical facilities.

 The doctrines of charitable and sovereign immunity as they relate to hospitals and other medical facilities in this State are hereby modified to the extent that any person sustaining an injury or dying by reason of the tortious act of commission or omission of agents, servants, employees or officers of a charitable hospital or medical facility or of a hospital or other medical facility operated or funded by the State, its agencies, departments, institutions, commissions, boards or political subdivisions may recover in any action brought against such hospital or other medical facility for such actual damages as he may sustain a sum not exceeding one hundred thousand dollars. Except as to licensed physicians and dentists, the judgment in an action under this section shall constitute a complete bar to any action by the claimant, by reason of the same subject matter, against the employee of the charitable or governmental entity whose act or omission gave rise to the claim; and a plaintiff, when bringing an action under the provisions of this section, shall only name as a party defendant the entity for which the employee was acting and shall not name the employee individually unless the entity for which the employee was acting cannot be determined at the time the action is instituted. In the event the employee is individually named under the conditions permitted above, the entity for which the employee was acting shall be substituted as the party defendant when it can be so reasonably determined. The provisions of this section shall in no way limit or modify the liability of a licensed physician or dentist.  HISTORY: 1977 Act No. 182 Section 3.
SC Code § 44-7-60 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 44 - Health|Chapter 7 - Hospitals, Tuberculosis Camps And Health Services Districts|Section 44-7-60. Borrowing money by nonprofit public hospitals.

 Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the governing board of any nonprofit public hospital in this State with the approval of the governing body of the county wherein such hospital is located which has borrowed money may continue to borrow money in the name of the hospital for general hospital purposes. "Borrowing money" as used herein shall include the authority to make notes or other evidences of debt and to secure payment thereof by placing a mortgage on any or all of its property, both real and personal.  HISTORY: 1978 Act No. 558.
SC Code § 44-7-70 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 44 - Health|Chapter 7 - Hospitals, Tuberculosis Camps And Health Services Districts|Section 44-7-70. Report to State Board of Medical Examiners concerning action resulting in limitation upon physician's privilege to practice in health care facility.

 (A) The medical staff chief or medical director of a health care facility, as defined in Section 44-7-130, shall report in writing to the State Board of Medical Examiners the results of and the circumstances concerning an action resulting in the revocation or suspension of or other limitation upon, a physician's privileges to practice in that health care facility. This report is not required in the case of:  (1) a nondisciplinary resignation by the physician; however, a resignation occurring after an incident or occurrence which could result in the revocation or suspension of or other limitation upon the physician's privileges must be reported;  (2) a minor disciplinary action regarding the physician's privileges in that health care facility when the action taken does not involve the revocation or suspension of or other limitation upon the physician's privileges to practice there;  (3) a disciplinary action resulting from the physician's failure to meet recordkeeping standards;  (4) a disciplinary action resulting from the physician's failure to attend meetings; or  (5) other disciplinary actions as defined by regulation promulgated by the State Board of Medical Examiners.  (B) The medical staff chief or medical director of a health care facility, as defined in Section 44-7-130, shall report in writing to the State Board of Medical Examiners and to the Board of Podiatry Examiners the results of and the circumstances concerning an action resulting in the revocation or suspension of or other limitation upon, a podiatrist's privileges to practice in that health care facility. This report is not required in the case of:  (1) a nondisciplinary resignation by the podiatrist; however, a resignation occurring after an incident or occurrence which could result in the revocation or suspension of or other limitation upon the podiatrist's privileges must be reported;  (2) a minor disciplinary action regarding the podiatrist's privileges in that health care facility when the action taken does not involve the revocation or suspension of or other limitation upon the podiatrist's privileges to practice there;  (3) a disciplinary action resulting from the podiatrist's failure to meet recordkeeping standards;  (4) a disciplinary action resulting from the podiatrist's failure to attend meetings; or  (5) other disciplinary actions as defined by regulation promulgated by the Board of Podiatry Examiners.  (C) A person making a report required by this section is immune from criminal and civil liability in making the report, if the report is made in good faith and without malice.  HISTORY: 1986 Act No. 317; 1996 Act No. 241, Section 9.
SC Code § 44-7-77 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 44 - Health|Chapter 7 - Hospitals, Tuberculosis Camps And Health Services Districts|Section 44-7-77. Program to obtain voluntary acknowledgment of paternity of newborns.

 The Department of Health and Environmental Control and the State Department of Social Services, in conjunction with the South Carolina Hospital Association, shall develop and implement a program to promote obtaining voluntary acknowledgments of paternity as soon after birth as possible and where possible before the release of the newborn from the hospital. A voluntary acknowledgment including those obtained through an in-hospital program shall contain the requirements of Section 63-17-60(A)(4) and the social security number, or the alien identification number assigned to a resident alien who does not have a social security number, of both parents, and must be signed by both parents. The signatures must be notarized. As part of its in-hospital voluntary acknowledgment of paternity program, a birthing hospital as part of the birth registration process, shall collect, where ascertainable, information which is or may be necessary for the establishment of the paternity of the child and for the establishment of child support. The information to be collected on the father or on the putative father if paternity has not been established includes, but is not limited to, the name of the father, his date of birth, home address, social security number, or the alien identification number assigned to a resident alien who does not have a social security number, and employer's name, and additionally for the putative father, the names and addresses of the putative father's parents.  HISTORY: 1994 Act No. 481, Section 11; 1994 Act No. 513, Section 4; 1995 Act No. 102, Part VI, Section 7; 1997 Act No. 71, Section 8; 1999 Act No. 100, Part II, Section 105.
SC Code § 44-7-78 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 44 - Health|Chapter 7 - Hospitals, Tuberculosis Camps And Health Services Districts|Section 44-7-78. Authority to establish facilities, programs, and services in other locations.

 Notwithstanding any other provision of law, an entity that operates a health care facility as defined in Section 44-7-130(10) may develop and operate facilities, programs, and services in any location where such facilities, programs, or services support the entity or provide services to residents in the area, provided all other statutory and regulatory requirements are met, including the State Certification of Need and Health Facility Licensure Act, Article 3, Chapter 7, Title 44 and related regulations promulgated by the department.  HISTORY: 2000 Act No. 387, Part II, Section 48B.
SC Code § 44-7-80 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 44 - Health|Chapter 7 - Hospitals, Tuberculosis Camps And Health Services Districts|Section 44-7-80. Definitions.

 For the purposes of this article:  (1) "Nursing home" means a facility with an organized nursing staff to maintain and operate organized facilities and services to accommodate two or more unrelated persons over a period exceeding twenty-four hours, which is operated either in connection with a hospital or as a freestanding facility for the express or implied purpose of providing intermediate or skilled nursing care for persons who are not in need of hospital care. Rehabilitative therapies may be provided on an outpatient basis.  (2) "Medicaid nursing home permit" means a permit to serve Medicaid patients in an appropriately certified nursing home.  (3) "Medicaid patient" means a person who is eligible for Medicaid (Title XIX) sponsored long-term care services.  (4) "Medicaid patient day" means a day of nursing home care for which a nursing home receives Medicaid reimbursement.  (5) "Medicaid permit day" means a day of service provided to a Medicaid patient in a Medicaid-certified nursing home which holds a Medicaid days permit.  (6) "Department" means the Department of Health and Environmental Control.  HISTORY: 1987 Act No. 184 Section 1; 2014 Act No. 152 (H.3978), Section 1, eff April 7, 2014.
SC Code § 44-7-82 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 44 - Health|Chapter 7 - Hospitals, Tuberculosis Camps And Health Services Districts|Section 44-7-82. Permit requirement.

 No nursing home may provide care to Medicaid patients without first obtaining a permit in the manner provided in this article.  HISTORY: 1987 Act No. 184 Section 1; 2014 Act No. 152 (H.3978), Section 1, eff April 7, 2014.
SC Code § 44-7-88 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 44 - Health|Chapter 7 - Hospitals, Tuberculosis Camps And Health Services Districts|Section 44-7-88. Involuntary discharge or transfer of Medicaid nursing home patients prohibited; request for waiver of permit requirements.

 Nursing home patients may not be involuntarily discharged or transferred due to the Medicaid status. If no Medicaid patients are waiting for admission to the nursing home, or if for some other reason a nursing home anticipates the possibility that the home cannot satisfy the Medicaid nursing home permit requirements, the home may request a waiver of the Medicaid permit requirements from the department.  HISTORY: 1987 Act No. 184 Section 1; 2014 Act No. 152 (H.3978), Section 1, eff April 7, 2014.
SC Code § 44-7-110 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 44 - Health|Chapter 7 - Hospitals, Tuberculosis Camps And Health Services Districts|Section 44-7-110. Short title.

 This article may be cited as the "State Certification of Need and Health Facility Licensure Act".  HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 32-761; 1952 Code Section 32-761; 1947 (45) 510; 1971 (57) 376; 1979 Act No. 51 Section 1; 1988 Act No. 670, Section 1.