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Prisma Health is a not-for-profit health organization in
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, 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 Greenville Memorial Hospital is an 814-bed tertiary referral hospital and academic center located at 701 Grove Road, Greenville, South Carolina. It serves as the regional referral center for the upstate area. It was formerly the flagship hosp ...
in Greenville. Areas of specialty at Prisma Health include:


History

The Greenville Health Authority (GHA) owns healthcare facilities managed by Prisma Health, 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. However, Act 432 under which GHA operates gives no such authority to the GHA Board of Trustees. The GHA Board has only 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 The United States Department of Justice (DOJ), also known as the Justice Department, is a federal executive department of the United States government tasked with the enforcement of federal law and administration of justice in the United State ...
won a $237 million judgement against the Tuomey Healtchare system, then an independent organization, for violations of the
Stark Law Stark Law is a set of United States federal laws that prohibit physician self-referral, specifically a referral by a physician of a Medicare or Medicaid patient to an entity for the provision of designated health services ("DHS") if the physici ...
and the
False Claims Act The False Claims Act (FCA), also called the "Lincoln Law", is an American federal law that imposes liability on persons and companies (typically federal contractors) who defraud governmental programs. It is the federal government's primary litigat ...
. The decade-long lawsuit was triggered by a whistleblower complaint by Michael Drakeford, MD under the ''
qui tam In common law, a writ of ''qui tam'' is a writ through which private individuals who assist a prosecution can receive for themselves all or part of the damages or financial penalties recovered by the government as a result of the prosecution. Its ...
'' provision of the Act. Drakeford was among 19 surgeons involved in the billing of illegal referral fees to Medicare. The size of the judgement crushed Tuomey, which subsequently sought to merge with other organizations and it later merged with Palmetto in 2016.


Hospitals

*Prisma Health Baptist Easley Hospital (Located in Easley) *
Prisma Health Greenville Memorial Hospital Greenville Memorial Hospital is an 814-bed tertiary referral hospital and academic center located at 701 Grove Road, Greenville, South Carolina. It serves as the regional referral center for the upstate area. It was formerly the flagship hosp ...
(located in Greenville) *Prisma Health Greer Memorial Hospital (Located in Greer) *Prisma Health Laurens Memorial Hospital (Located in Laurens) *Prisma Health North Greenville Hospital (Located in Travelers Rest) *Prisma Health Oconee Memorial Hospital (Located in
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) *Prisma Health Patewood Hospital (Located in Greenville) *Prisma Health Hillcrest Hospital (Located in Simpsonville) * Prisma Health Richland Hospital (located north of Downtown Columbia) * Prisma Health Baptist Hospital (Located at the Intersection of Taylor and Marion Streets in Downtown Columbia) *Prisma Health Baptist Parkridge Hospital (Located in Irmo) *Prisma Health Tuomey Hospital (Located in
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Specialty Hospitals

The Specialty Hospitals operated by Prisma Health include: *Prisma Health Children's Hospital - Midlands (Children's Hospital located on Richland Campus, Columbia) *Prisma Health Children's Hospital - Upstate *Prisma Health Heart Hospital (Cardiac-Care Facility located on Richland Campus) *Prisma Health Richland Springs Hospital (psychiatric and addiction services) *Prisma Health Marshall I. Pickens Hospital (care for psychiatric, emotional and psychological disorders)


Attempted Acquisition

Prisma Health and
LifePoint Health LifePoint Health is an American company that provides healthcare services in growing regions, rural communities and small towns. It was established in 1999 and is headquartered in Brentwood, Tennessee. As of November 16, 2018, it operated 89 hospi ...
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. 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 The Medical University of South Carolina (MUSC) is a public medical school in South Carolina. It opened in 1824 in Charleston as a small private college aimed at training physicians and has since established hospitals and medical facilities ac ...
.


References


External links


Prisma Health HomepageAbout Prisma Health Richland
Healthcare in South Carolina Medical and health organizations based in South Carolina Greenville, South Carolina {{SouthCarolina-stub Medicare fraud