Prisma Health

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Prisma Health is a not-for-profit health organization in South Carolina, formed by the merging of Palmetto Health and the Greenville Health System in November 2017. Its headquarters are on the property of Greenville Memorial Hospital in Greenville. [1]

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History

The Greenville Health Authority (GHA) owns healthcare facilities managed by Prisma Health, [2] which leases and operates them as Prisma Health-Upstate (a lease with Upstate Affiliate Organization was made in 2016). Greenville based members of the South Carolina General Assembly stated in 2021 that they wished for GHA to directly supervise and manage the Prisma-run facilities, as well as to make it clear that the GHA and not Prisma has authority over the doctors. [3] However, Act 432 under which GHA operates gives no such authority to the GHA Board of Trustees. The GHA Board only has the authority to assess the compliance of Prisma Health-Upstate with the terms of the Lease. Operations of Prisma Health - Upstate, including the supervision of its employees and physicians, are the responsibility of the Management and Board of Prisma Health.

Medicare Fraud

In 2013, the U.S. Department of Justice won a $237 million judgement against the Tuomey Healthcare system, then an independent organization, for violations of the Stark Law and the False Claims Act. The decade-long lawsuit was triggered by a whistleblower complaint by Michael Drakeford, MD under the qui tam provision of the Act. Drakeford was among 19 surgeons involved in the billing of illegal referral fees to Medicare. [4] The size of the judgement crushed Tuomey, which subsequently sought to merge with other organizations and it later merged with Palmetto in 2016. [5]

Hospitals

Specialty Hospitals

The Specialty Hospitals operated by Prisma Health include:

Attempted Acquisition

Prisma Health and LifePoint Health announced that they have signed an agreement for Prisma Health–Midlands to acquire KershawHealth in Camden, South Carolina and Providence Health in Columbia, South Carolina. [6]

A part of LifePoint Health, KershawHealth consists of facilities in Camden, Elgin, Lugoff, and Kershaw, including a 119-bed Medical Center and a 20-bed Geriatric Psychiatric Unit in Camden, Outpatient Center and Urgent Care in Elgin, Sleep Diagnostics Center, and a Physical Therapy Unit.

Providence Health consists of two hospitals in Columbia, a freestanding Emergency Room in Fairfield County and multiple physician practices, rehabilitation centers, sleep centers, imaging and diagnostics labs, and other services. Providence Health's downtown Columbia hospital specializes in high acuity care, while its Northeast Columbia campus recently transitioned from a specialty facility to a full-service community hospital.

The acquisition was dropped due to significant delays and challenges by the Federal Trade Commission and state regulatory authorities. The hospitals were then acquired by the Medical University of South Carolina. [7] [8]

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References

  1. "Contact". Prisma Health. Retrieved 2021-10-18. Prisma Health Corporate Office 701 Grove Rd., Greenville, SC, 29605 (Under the tab "Hospital Campus Phone Numbers") - address matches that of the whole Greenville Memorial Hospital complex: "701 Grove Rd. Greenville, SC 29605"
  2. Mitchell, Anna B. (2021-02-21). "Greenville Health Authority removes Prisma-linked president as hospital lease review nears". Post and Courier . Retrieved 2021-11-20. The changes are significant in that the GHA board owns the facilities from which Prisma runs healthcare in the Upstate.
  3. Navarro, Marcus (2021-04-21). "Greenville lawmakers want a more "proactive" Health Authority". Greenville News . Retrieved 2021-10-07.
  4. Becker, Scott; Gamble, Molly (November 14, 2013). "An Overview of the Tuomey Healthcare Case". Becker's Hospital Review.
  5. Ellison, Ayla (January 4, 2016). "Tuomey Healthcare, Palmetto Health finalize merger deal". Becker's Hospital Review.
  6. "Prisma Health to acquire KershawHealth and Providence Health". Prisma Health. Retrieved 2020-03-18.
  7. "Prisma Health drops plan to buy Providence Hospitals, Kershaw Health". WLTX. 9 April 2021. Retrieved 2022-02-21.
  8. "Agreement for Prisma Health to acquire KershawHealth and Providence Health terminated". Prisma Health. Retrieved 2022-02-21.