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CHARLESTON, WV - The state Public Employees Insurance Agency Finance Board has five public meetings scheduled over the next two weeks to give state workers an opportunity to comment on the proposed 2021 health insurance plan that will begin next July.

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WASHINGTON, DC - Children’s hospitals in the U.S. compete fiercely with each other to attract patients from around the country and around the world.

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WASHINGTON, DC - Seniors enrolled in traditional Medicare will pay higher premiums and deductibles next year, the CMS announced Friday.

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WHITE PLAINS, NY - The judge overseeing Purdue Pharma’s bankruptcy granted the OxyContin maker and its controlling Sackler family a six-month stay of opioid litigation as they try to negotiate a $10 billion-plus settlement of all outstanding claims.

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HUNTINGTON, WV - The county health department was staying open late just for them, so after dinner, a dozen men shuffled out of the Lifehouse drug rehabilitation shelter where they were living and climbed into a battered white van.

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MORGANTOWN, WV - West Virginia University Heart and Vascular Institute and the WVU Medicine Transplant Alliance hit a milestone achievement last week when they successfully performed the first heart transplant surgery ever in the state of West Virginia.

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CHARLESTON, WV - The West Virginia Department of Health and Human Resources, Bureau for Medical Services is now accepting public comments on the new Children with Serious Emotional Disorder Waiver policy manual until Dec. 1.

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