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Health care organization files lawsuit over drug test reimbursement payments By July 28, 2021 - 10:43 pm CHARLESTON, W.Va. — A West Virginia health care organization has filed a lawsuit against state agencies and a managed care organization regarding reimbursement for drug tests. According to a petition filed this week in Kanawha Circuit Court, Ohio Valley Physicians learned in January that UniCare Health Plan of West Virginia would be ceasing payments for drug tests performed in physician office labs. Oho Valley Physicians, which has its principal base of business in Kanawha County, alle...

CHARLESTON — The chairman of the West Virginia House of Delegates’ Health Committee has been named commissioner of the newly established Bureau for Social Services within the Department of Health and Human Resources. Del. Jeffrey Pack, R-Raleigh, will resign from his position as delegate. His district includes parts of Raleigh, Summers and Monroe counties. Pack, of Cool Ridge, West Virginia, was appointed to the House in January 2018 and then elected for two two-year terms. According to his legislative biography, he works in human resources and was last employed with Metrick Pest Co...

A federal judge last week ruled that The Health Plan of West Virginia is subject to compliance to a specific provision under the Affordable Care Act that prohibits sex discrimination, including transgender Americans. The Health Plan of West Virginia is a private company that provides health insurance services for the state. U.S. District Judge Robert “Chuck” Chambers on June 28 denied a motion from The Health Plan to dismiss a lawsuit from two transgender men who say their state-funded health insurance won’t cover hormone replacement therapy solely because they are transgender....

CHARLESTON — Gov. Jim Justice, who in April dismissed the idea of offering incentives to encourage people to get COVID-19 vaccinations, on Tuesday unveiled the first round of state vaccination

May 28—WHITE SULPHUR SPRINGS — Educators, prevention and treatment specialists, health care providers and more gathered for an educational lunch Thursday at The Greenbrier for the Game Changer Prevention and Education Luncheon. Department of Health and Human Resources Secretary Bill Crouch told the audience that the pandemic year saw overdose deaths climb 48 % after two years of significant ...