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09/16/2020 - Modern Healthcare by: Shelby Livingston
WASHINGTON, DC - CMS on Monday pitched changes to Medicare Advantage payments for 2022 that would complete a multiyear phase-in of a new payment methodology in which plan payments are adjusted using diagnoses solely from encounter data, which is information created by healthcare providers about patients' medical conditions and treatment.
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09/16/2020 - The Dominion Post by: David Beard
CHARLESTON, WV - The color-coded County Alert System and School Alert System maps has a fifth color effective Tuesday: gold.
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09/16/2020 - The Herald-Dispatch by: Taylor Stuck
CHARLESTON, WV - Gov. Jim Justice announced changes to the color-coded school reopening map Friday as West Virginia entered the weekend as the state with the fastest rate of COVID-19 spread in the nation.
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09/16/2020 - WVNews
MORGANTOWN, WV - Mon Health and WVU Medicine Children’s have signed a new contract, effective Sept. 1, for continued neonatology services for babies delivered at Mon Health Medical Center.
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09/15/2020 - Modern Healthcare by: Ginger Christ
WASHINGTON, DC - CMS on Monday opened public comment on a new measure that could be added to its Skilled Nursing Facility Quality Reporting Program this year.
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09/15/2020 - The Associated Press by: Sudhin Thanawala
WASHINGTON, DC - As COVID-19 swept through the South, Mel Prince watched with alarm as some of the HIV positive patients she helps in the rural Black Belt stopped showing up for lab tests and doctor’s visits.
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09/15/2020 - Modern Healthcare by: Shelby Livingston
WASHINGTON, DC - CMS on Monday pitched changes to Medicare Advantage payments for 2022 that would complete a multiyear phase-in of a new payment methodology in which plan payments are adjusted using diagnoses solely from encounter data, which is information created by healthcare providers about patients' medical conditions and treatment.
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