Federal government will no longer pay for heart transplants for Medicare patients at South Carolina hospital
The federal government will no longer pay to cover heart transplants for Medicare patients at Medical University Hospital in South Carolina, the Post and Courier reports.
The newspaper wrote that the government identified the hospital’s heart transplant program as low volume, but a hospital spokeswoman said the decision was based on old data.
The hospital is appealing the decision. It is the only hospital in South Carolina that performs heart transplant, according to the newspaper.
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Tim Casey joined TriMed Media Group in 2015 as Executive Editor. For the previous four years, he worked as an editor and writer for HMP Communications, primarily focused on covering managed care issues and reporting from medical and health care conferences. He was also a staff reporter at the Sacramento Bee for more than four years covering professional, college and high school sports. He earned his undergraduate degree in psychology from the University of Notre Dame and his MBA degree from Georgetown University.