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37 HEALTHCARE NEWS South Carolina hospital fires back at physicians claiming 'abysmal' care By Ayla Ellison C olumbia, S.C.-based Prisma Health said physicians claiming patient safety issues at the system's Baptist Hospital are motivated by money more than patient care, according to e State. e health system made the allegations in response to an August court filing by South Carolina OB-GYN Associates that cited "abysmal" care and "astonishing lapses in patient care, cleanliness, and unsafe" condi- tions at Baptist Hospital in Columbia, S.C. e legal filing came aer Prisma sued the medical group in July for breaking a 10-year lease at the hospital and moving to a rival hos- pital, Lexington Medical Center in Columbia. "(T)he doctors not only benefited from the sale of their practice to Lexington Medical Center, but their current status as employ- ees of Lexington Medical Center provides the doctors financial stability, less risk and few, if any, administrative tasks that accompany business ownership," Prisma claimed in a recent court filing, according to the report. Prisma alleges the nine physicians in the medical group were motivated by "personal financial gain" to split with its hospital. "The SC OB-GYN doctors chose to relo- cate their practice form the preeminent la- bor and delivery hospital in the Midlands to the campus of a lower-ranked com- petitor hospital for one simple reason — MONEY," states the court filing, according to the report. e hospital further claims that it was not informed of several of the complaints cited in the physicians' complaint, and that some of the complaints were exaggerated. n 10 states with least competitive commercial insurance markets By Morgan Haefner Alabama has the most concentrated commercial health insurance market in the U.S., according to an analysis from the American Medical Association. For the 2020 study of U.S. health insurance markets, researchers with the AMA analyzed market concentration in 384 metropolitan statistical areas, 50 states and the District of Columbia. The researchers used the Herfindahl-Hirschman Index, a commonly accepted measure of concentration used in federal anti- trust cases, to analyze competitiveness. Here are the 10 states with the least competitive commercial health insurance markets: 1. Alabama 2. Hawaii 3. Michigan 4. Delaware 5. South Carolina 6. Kentucky 7. Alaska 8. Louisiana 9. Illinois 10. North Carolina. n Detroit Medical Center scraps $70M plan for sports medicine institute By Alan Condon D etroit Medical Center has spiked plans to develop a $70 million sports medicine institute near Little Caesars Arena in Detroit, ABC affiliate WXYZ reported Sept. 30. DMC announced plans in June 2018 to develop the 50,000-square-foot cen- ter in partnership with Olympia Development of Michigan. The system cited challenges associated with the COVID-19 pandemic as the reason for dropping the plan. "Stay-at-home orders and restrictions prohibiting elective procedures caused hospitals everywhere to reevaluate their core services," according to a DMC statement obtained by WXYZ. "Our decision allows us to reallocate resources appropriately in this changing environment." n