A joint resolution to establish the healthcare market reform study committee, to provide for the study committee’s membership and the committee’s affiliated nonvoting advisory board, to provide that the committee shall study whether to recommend the adoption of various measures affecting the provision of health care services in South Carolina and the potential benefits associated with these measures, to require the study committee to issue a report with findings and recommendations, to require the study committee to retain a third party, independent, expert consultant, or consultants to advise the study committee, and to provide for the dissolution of the study committee.

Amend The South Carolina Code Of Laws By Amending Section 44-7-170(b), Relating To Institutions And Transactions Exempt From The State Certification Of Need And Health Facility Licensure Act So As To Add Diabetes Screening Facilities.

Amend The South Carolina Code Of Laws By Amending Section 44-7-170, Relating To Institutions And Transactions Exempt From Certificate Of Need Review, So As To Add An Exemption For The Relocation Of Certain Hospitals Relocated In The Same County.

Creates an exemption for hospitals relocating in the same county from needing a Certificate of Need assessment

This bill eliminates the Certificate of Need (CON) program

This bill eliminates the Certificate of Need (CON) program

Amend KRS 216B.020 to exempt any group of three contiguous counties from obtaining a certificate of need if each county borders another state and each county has a population of 90,000 or more according to the most recent federal decennial census.

Amend The South Carolina Code Of Laws By Enacting The “south Carolina Medicaid Buy-in Act”; And By Adding Article 10 To Chapter 6, Title 44 So As To Establish A Medicaid Buy-in Program To Provide Quality, Affordable Health Insurance For Certain Residents Of The State.

Amend The South Carolina Code Of Laws By Adding Section 41-1-140 So As To Provide That Any Covenant Not To Compete That A Nonprofit Corporation With An Annual Gross Revenue Exceeding One Billion Dollars Has With Current And Former Employees Is Null, Void, And Unenforceable, And To Provide That No Such Covenant May Be Entered Into With Future Employees.