West Virginia news and information

University Health Associates, Morgantown, W.Va., is not a private practice for physicians but instead qualifies as a public agency under West Virginia law because of its "symbiotic relationship" with West Virginia University Hospitals, a judge says. That means its records are subject to the state's...
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More is being spent per capita in West Virginia than any other state to promote public awareness of the new healthcare reform law, but advocates are concerned that those who could benefit most still won't get enrolled.
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If all goes according to plan, 277,000 West Virginians will have government-sponsored health coverage by 2016, as part of the federal Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. And while that means thousands of state residents will have access to healthcare they previously lacked, patients still...
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A West Virginia physician was convicted Tuesday in federal court in Wheeling on charges of scheming to obtain hundreds of thousands of dollars from Medicare and Medicaid.
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Former hospital executive and nurse Karen Bowling will become West Virginia's Health and Human Resources secretary on July 1, Gov. Earl Ray Tomblin said Wednesday, taking over a sprawling department recently scrutinized by an audit and assigned the daunting task of expanding the state's Medicaid...
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It takes some pluck to drive in West Virginia, probably to live there, too, amid the many mountains, valleys, hills and “hollers.” As one plucky experiment in open-source health information technology ends in the Mountain State, another continues to thrive.
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It sometimes takes a phone call to make meaningful use of electronic health records in rural areas. In the central West Virginia village of Clay, with a population of about 490, Dr. Sarah Chouinard heads Community Care of West Virginia, also a Community Health Network member.
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West Virginia Gov. Earl Ray Tomblin's decision to open Medicaid to more low-income West Virginians was reached neither quickly nor easily, administration officials say.
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Some small, rural healthcare organizations have become health information technology front-runners and their leaders techno mavens, despite the digital divide that separates the larger, urban health IT have-nows from the smaller, rural IT have-not-yets.
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Mountain States Health Alliance, which operates 12 hospitals in northeast Tennessee and southwest Virginia, will join Vanderbilt University Medical Center's network of affiliated hospitals.
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