{"id":10356,"date":"2014-06-11T08:03:56","date_gmt":"2014-06-11T13:03:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kevinbryant.com\/?p=10356"},"modified":"2014-06-14T19:41:22","modified_gmt":"2014-06-15T00:41:22","slug":"in-state-diagnostic-services-proviso-eliminated-by-sc-house","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kevinbryant.com\/kbarchive\/in-state-diagnostic-services-proviso-eliminated-by-sc-house\/","title":{"rendered":"in state diagnostic services proviso eliminated by SC House"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.kevinbryant.com\/kbarchive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/drug-test1.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"4845\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.kevinbryant.com\/kbarchive\/s-532-urine-or-youre-out\/drug-test\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.kevinbryant.com\/kbarchive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/drug-test1.jpg?fit=293%2C293&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"293,293\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"drug-test\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.kevinbryant.com\/kbarchive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/drug-test1.jpg?fit=293%2C293&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.kevinbryant.com\/kbarchive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/drug-test1.jpg?fit=293%2C293&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-4845\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.kevinbryant.com\/kbarchive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/drug-test1.jpg?resize=150%2C150\" alt=\"drug-test\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.kevinbryant.com\/kbarchive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/drug-test1.jpg?resize=150%2C150&amp;ssl=1 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.kevinbryant.com\/kbarchive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/drug-test1.jpg?w=293&amp;ssl=1 293w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>The Senate version of the budget this year contain the following proviso:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em><strong>33.32.<\/strong>\u00a0(DHHS: In-state Medicaid Providers Lab Services)\u00a0 Whenever possible, contracts with managed care plans participating in the Healthy Connections Choices program shall apply an in-state provider preference when contracting for laboratory services if the in-state provider is able to provide the requested service at the same or less cost as an out-of-state provider.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>What this means is all of the Medicaid hmo&#8217;s are required to consider contracting with in-state when possible. Currently the two largest medicaid hmo&#8217;s send all of their lab work to a company in North Carolina. This proviso simple calls for a chance for South Carolina labs to participate. Unfortunately, the SC House budget amendment struck this proviso.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Senate version of the budget this year contain the following proviso: 33.32.\u00a0(DHHS: In-state Medicaid Providers Lab Services)\u00a0 Whenever possible, contracts with managed care plans participating in the Healthy Connections Choices program shall apply an in-state provider preference when contracting for laboratory services if the in-state provider is able to provide the requested service at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-10356","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2gEQ0-2H2","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kevinbryant.com\/kbarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10356","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kevinbryant.com\/kbarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kevinbryant.com\/kbarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kevinbryant.com\/kbarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kevinbryant.com\/kbarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10356"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.kevinbryant.com\/kbarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10356\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10357,"href":"https:\/\/www.kevinbryant.com\/kbarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10356\/revisions\/10357"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kevinbryant.com\/kbarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10356"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kevinbryant.com\/kbarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10356"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kevinbryant.com\/kbarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10356"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}