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CHARLESTON, WV - Highmark Health Options West Virginia will be a managed care organization for Medicaid-eligible West Virginians after approval was recently given by the West Virginia Department of Human Services Bureau.

WASHINGTON, DC - Physicians confronted a Medicare reimbursement cut this year, but the American Medical Association and other organizations are also looking ahead to a bigger fight: completely overhauling how the program pays doctors

MORGANTOWN, WV - WVU Medicine and the WVU Medicine Transplant Alliance have completed their 100th solid organ transplant surgery.

MORGANTOWN, WV - Mon Health Medical Center is a 155-bed hospital located in Morgantown, West Virginia with a mission to enhance the health of the communities it serves, one person at a time.

HUNTINGTON, WV - Sometimes miracles come in pairs. The very first set of twins born in 2024 at The Maternity Center at Cabell Huntington Hospital made their appearance on Monday, Jan. 15.

CLARKSBURG, WV - Veterans who get their health care services at the VA medical center in Clarksburg will soon see a boost in their customer care experience.

CLARKSBURG, WV - The Center for Organ Recovery and Education (CORE) recently announced that they’re breaking records for lives saved through organ donations.

LEWISBURG, WV - Since the 1990s, point-of-care ultrasound technology has become more widely used among physicians at the bedsides of patients.

CHARLESTON, WV - A delegate from West Virginia, Geno Chiarelli, has proposed a new law.

CHARLESTON, WV - Despite a proclivity toward culture war issues, given a GOP supermajority, the West Virginia Legislature is doing some meaningful work in addressing access to cancer screening.

CHARLESTON, WV - Lawmakers are considering a bill that would require pharmacy benefit managers to be more transparent in contracting with the Public Employee Insurance Agency.

CHARLESTON, WV - State lawmakers are to be commended for working quickly on bills from both the Senate and House of Delegates that would remove fentanyl test strips from the definition in state code for drug paraphernalia.

CHARLESTON, WV - An amended version of a bill that would allow lawmakers to privately question officials within the newly-formed agencies that used to make up the West Virginia Department of Health and Human Resources (DHHR) passed through committee on Wednesday and will head to the House floor next.

PARKERSBURG, WV - State Senate Majority Leader Tom Takubo, R-Kanawha, has spoken in support of Senate Bill 208 — yet another attempt to attract and retain needed workers.

CHARLESTON, WV - A bill that would legalize the production, sales and adult recreational consumption of marijuana was introduced in the House of Delegates on Wednesday.

MORGANTOWN, WV - West Virginia University and the WVU Rockefeller Neuroscience Institute made a big splash in the national media and the effects are still rippling.

HUNTINGTON, WV - Cabell Huntington Hospital’s (CHH) Center for Advanced Reproductive Medicine, a member of Marshall Health Network, exceeded the national average for in vitro fertilization (IVF) pregnancy rates in 2023, as reported by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the American Society of Reproductive Medicine.

PRINCETON, WV - Dr. Lyndsey Weatherly is a practicing pediatrician at WVU Medicine Princeton Community Hospital.

MARTINSBURG, WV - In collaboration with the West Virginia Coalition to End Homelessness, county captains from WVU Medicine and Telamon will be coordinating a street count of individuals experiencing homelessness beginning at 4 p.m. on Wednesday, Jan. 24, until 3:59 p.m. on Thursday, Jan. 25.

MORGANTOWN, WV - Dr. Gregory Purnell, a member of Mon Health Medical Center Staff, is now performing MACI (autologous cultured chondrocytes on a collagen membrane), an advanced approach to restoring damaged cartilage in the knee in the appropriate patients.

HUNTINGTON, WV - Artists across the Tri-State will be busy for the next four months putting their original design on large fiberglass animal statues for the Artisans Celebration 2024 presented by the Cabell Huntington Hospital Foundation.

WHEELING, WV - As the former Ohio Valley Medical Center buildings get knocked down, some former employees of the hospital are wondering if they will get to keep a piece of the facility as a keepsake.

CHARLESTON, WV - West Virginia's House of Delegates is considering a new bill, known as House Bill 4866.

PARKERSBURG, WV - The West Virginia Department of Human Services (DoHS), Bureau for Medical Services (BMS), the state agency responsible for the administration of West Virginia’s Medicaid program, has approved the Highmark Health Options West Virginia (HHOWV) application to be a managed care organization option for Medicaid eligible West Virginians.

CHARLESTON, WV - A bill to expand mobile mammography and tomography services in West Virginia has cleared the House of Delegates and now makes its way to the Senate.

HUNTINGTON, WV - The Hoops Family Children’s Hospital Child Advocacy Center served 278 victims of child abuse in 2023, according to Marshall Health Network.

CHARLESTON, WV - The West Virginia Senate and House of Delegates are quickly moving bills to provide first responders and the public access to an important tool in the fight against fentanyl overdoses.

WAYNE, WV - Lawmakers are now speaking out, days after our WSAZ investigation “No Ambulance” sounded the alarm about lacking ambulance service in Wayne County.

MORGANTOWN, WV - The American College of Cardiology (ACC) has recognized Mon Health Heart & Vascular Center at Mon Health Medical Center for its demonstrated expertise and commitment in treating patients who experience rhythmic issues, such as atrial fibrillation, and in treating patients with chest pain.

BRIDGEPORT, WV - WVU Medicine United Hospital Center has announced the latest addition to its robotic surgery portfolio — the da Vinci SP Single Port Surgical System by Intuitive Surgical.