However, there are 24 hospitals exempted from the cuts, such as Hilton Head (S.C.) Hospital and Beaufort (S.C.) Memorial Hospital, because they proportionally serve more Medicaid patients.
Physician payments will be slashed by up to an additional 7 percent.
Hospital and physician associations disagree with this second round of Medicaid cuts as patients might have difficulty finding sufficient care if physicians and hospitals stop accepting Medicaid due to its low level of reimbursement.
Read The Island Packet‘s coverage on South Carolina Medicaid.
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