NewsScan

WASHINGTON D.C. - The American Telemedicine Association formed a new leadership council featuring 11 health system executives.

MORGANTOWN, WV - The WVU Eye Institute is launching an Immuno-Ocular Enrichment Support Group, a dedicated community for patients with autoimmune diseases that impact eye health.

CHARLESTON, WV - After years of college and medical school research, I’d never once gotten emotional while reading interviews from research participants.

MORGANTOWN, WV - Mountain State native Tonie Renner Gentile had a lifelong passion for music that endured through her brief battle with breast cancer.

CHARLESTON, WV - The new State Department of Health Facilities announced a plan late Friday afternoon that could result in four state-run hospitals being sold to the private sector.

MORGANTOWN, WV - WVU Medicine Children’s has announced a partnership that will advance mental health resources for children and families throughout West Virginia.

WASHINGTON, DC - As more older adults opt for Medicare Advantage plans, reimbursement fights between hospitals and insurers are increasingly centered around those contracts.

WASHINGTON, DC - Four in 10 cancer cases and about half of cancer deaths among U.S. adults 30 years old and older in 2019 were linked to “modifiable” risk factors like smoking, drinking, poor diet and not getting vaccinated, according to a new study from the American Cancer Society.

WASHINGTON, DC - Advocates for telehealth viewed the proposed physician payment rule from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services as a win but emphasized the need for Congressional action.

MORGANTOWN, WV - AWest Virginia University-led effort is extending its reach to 11 Mountain State counties, providing more low-income pregnant women and families with children access to health care and life skills through the West Virginia Healthy Start/Helping Appalachian Parents and Infants — HAPI — project.

CHARLESTON, WV - More funding in the form of $1 million is going toward the ongoing project to build new and permanent ambulance stations across four Kanawha County locations.

MORGANTOWN, WV - Summer is in full swing and Mon Health Primary Care reminds patients of important summer safety tips to keep themselves healthy this summer.

CHARLESTON, WV - Gov. Jim Justice announced on Thursday the distribution of $5.38 million in grant awards for projects throughout West Virginia.

CHARLESTON, WV - As the hot temperatures continue across West Virginia this week, Appalachian Power Company says it will be cutting back on the utility’s planned maintenance related power outages.

WASHINGTON, DC - Medicare physician payments would decline 2.9% in 2025 under a proposed rule the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services published Wednesday.

WASHINGTON, DC - Hospital outpatient departments and ambulatory surgical centers would receive 2.6% reimbursement hikes next year under a proposed rule the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services issued Wednesday.

CHARLESTON, WV - The AHA, 340B Health, Maryland Hospital Association and Mid-Atlantic Association of Community Health Centers July 9 filed an amicus brief in a federal district court in Maryland, defending the state’s law protecting 340B pricing for contract pharmacy arrangements. AHA, 340B Health and the West Virginia Hospital Association last week filed a similar amicus brief in a federal district court in West Virginia.

CHARLESTON, WV - The American Red Cross is urgently appealing to residents of West Virginia and across the nation to donate blood amidst a critical shortage.

WASHINGTON, DC - CMS has launched a dementia care program that will be piloted by 400 organizations.

MORGANTOWN, WV - LUCAS, a first of its kind, state-of-the-art mobile lung cancer screening unit, will visit Jackson and Gilmer counties offering low-dose computed tomography (LDCT) scans.

WASHINGTON, DC - When hospitals are hit by cyberattacks that compromise crucial technology systems for managing patient care, the stakes are staggering.

MORGANTOWN, WV - Bonnie’s Bus mobile mammography unit will visit Pocahontas and Barbour counties offering three-dimensional (3D) digital screening mammograms and breast care education to women.

WASHINGTON, DC - A legal victory for Medicare Advantage insurers and marketers ironically may cause some headaches when open enrollment for 2025 rolls around.

MORGANTOWN, WV - West Virginia University researchers will put a sleep apnea detection device at the fingertips or wrists of patients facilitating early diagnosis and treatment of the disease with support from a National Science Foundation grant.

CHARLESTON, WV - State Senate President Craig Blair says his gut tells him the state cannot afford an additional 5% cut in the personal income tax but he’s willing to discuss it.

MORGANTOWN, WV - Mon Health Medical Center has received the American College of Cardiology’s NCDR Chest Pain – MI Registry Silver Performance Achievement Award for 2024.

WASHINGTON, DC - Diagnoses of sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) jumped up in recent years, especially among older Americans, according to new data.

MORGANTOWN, WV - The Mon Health System – Vandalia Health North Board of Directors announces a change in board membership.

BRIDGEPORT, WV - A Bridgeport automobile dealership and a nonprofit organization recently teamed up to help chemotherapy patients from being cold during their cancer treatments.

CHARLESTON, WV - House Finance Committee Chairman Vernon Criss says state lawmakers should consider a tax cut proposal by Gov. Jim Justice before a new administration takes over.