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WASHINGTON, DC - The equity of the healthcare industry’s population health management care has been called into question after researchers found that a widely used algorithm sold by Optum dramatically underestimated the health needs of the sickest black patients.

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WASHINGTON, DC - The CMS on Friday finalized rules that modify how physicians get paid for evaluation and management services and changes how the agency determines the financial rewards that doctors receive for improving healthcare quality and lowering costs.

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WASHINGTON, DC - U.S. Senators Joe Manchin (D-WV) and Shelley Moore Capito (R-WV), members of the Appropriations Committee, today announced $750,000 through the Drug-Free Communities Support Program (DFC) grant from the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy (ONDCP).

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MORGANTOWN, WV - Medical researchers at West Virginia University are studying the ramifications of a change in state policy designed to reverse the effects of the ongoing opioid epidemic.

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FAIRMONT, WV - As of Oct. 15, there have been 2,577 cases of Hepatitis A reported in West Virginia.

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WASHINGTON, DC - The CMS on Friday will move forward with site-neutral payments for doctor's visits, even though a federal judge ruled against the policy earlier this year.

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WASHINGTON, DC - For years, healthcare has focused on addressing providers' implicit biases toward patients and their adverse effects on health.

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