On Jan. 10, the administrative law court will hear the hospital’s case against the proposed ASC, which was granted a certificate of need by the South Carolina Department of Health and Environmental Control.
Regional Medical Center also received a certificate of need to build its own ASC — a $2.4 million facility that will be converted from a dialysis center, according to the report.
The Orangeburg-based physicians seeking to open Ambulatory Partners are general surgeon Dion Franga, MD, and Amit Sanghi, DO, a diagnostic radiology specialist.
The Ambulatory Partners physicians have not appealed the certificate of need for Regional Medical Center’s ASC and claim both surgery centers are needed in the area.
