COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — South Carolina's insurance plan for public employees expects to spend about $70 million to provide the preventive services that federal health care law requires insurance plans to offer at no out-of-pocket cost to workers.

While workers and retirees won't pay at the doctors' office, they will pay elsewhere, said Stephen Van Camp, director of employees' insurance program.

State actuaries estimate the required services will cost between $65 million and $75 million to provide, likely starting in 2014, Van Camp told a retirement advisory panel on Thursday.

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