By CONOR GRIFFITH
NCWV Media
WHEELING, W.Va. — WVU Medicine and the Wheeling-based not-for-profit corporation The Health Plan have officially merged and in the process created the Mountain State’s first fully-integrated health-care system in which hospitals and health insurance providers are on the same page.
The announcement was made Tuesday morning, first to employees of The Health Plan near the company’s downtown headquarters. The Health Plan President and CEO Jim Pennington said this process has been in the works for about 18 months.
“We’re aligned now, so it’s not a provider fighting against a payer or a payer trying to figure out how to pay less,” he said. “Now it’s us aligning together to pay the appropriate amount to deliver the highest level of quality that we can.”
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