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11/07/2019 - Charleston Gazette-Mail by: Taylor Stuck
CHARLESTON, WV - The West Virginia Department of Health and Human Resources announced Tuesday that Aetna Better Health of West Virginia has been selected to serve as the managed care organization for children and youth in adoption and foster care placement, and the state’s Children with Serious Emotional Disturbance (SED) waiver.
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11/07/2019 - MetroNews by: Mike Nolting
MORGANTOWN, WV - A 61-year old Ohio man has received the first heart transplant completed by the West Virginia University Heart and Vascular Center Medicine Transplant Alliance with the WVU Transplant Alliance.
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11/07/2019 - Pittsburgh Business Times by: Paul J. Gough
MORGANTOWN, WV - A life-saving heart transplant for a 61-year-old man marks an important milestone for WVU Medicine — it’s the first heart transplant in West Virginia history and the first of what will be many heart and kidney transplants for the health system.
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11/06/2019 - Modern Healthcare by: Steven Ross Johnson
WASHINGTON, DC - Fourteen of the country's largest hospital systems on Tuesday pledged to invest more than $700 million toward community-based initiatives aimed at addressing the economic and environmental drivers behind a widening disparity in health outcomes.
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11/06/2019 - Modern Healthcare by: Maria Castellucci
WASHINGTON, DC - While the number of patients with injuries or infections in Michigan declined over an eight-year period, a new study found it wasn't because of the penalty-driven Hospital-Acquired Condition Reduction Program.
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11/06/2019 - Modern Healthcare by: Michael Brady
WASHINGTON, DC - The CMS might not have the legal authority it needs to force hospitals to reveal the prices they negotiate with insurers, a shortcoming that could eventually sink the Trump administration's price transparency push.
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11/06/2019 - WVNews
WASHINGTON, DC - The Drug Enforcement Administration is alerting the public of dangerous counterfeit pills killing Americans.
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