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North Carolinians who are on the State Health Plan (SHP) for their medical insurance will not see an increase in their premiums for the 2024 benefit year. State Treasurer Dale Folwell and the SHP Board of Trustees agreed to the freeze for the sixth year in a row.
Published: Monday, October 30th, 2023 @ 12:27 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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Recently, Golden LEAF President, Chief Executive Officer Scott T. Hamilton sat down with the President of the BlueCross and BlueShield of North Carolina (BCBSNC) Foundation Dr. John Lumpkin via Zoom and filmed an episode of Critical Conversations.
Published: Thursday, October 19th, 2023 @ 9:49 am
By: Eastern NC NOW Staff
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Gov. Roy Cooper signed four bills into law Saturday, including the controversial H.B.346, Reorganization & Economic Development Act, which will allow Blue Cross Blue Shield North Carolina and Delta Dental to reorganize and create a holding company for billions in surplus revenue.
Published: Saturday, July 29th, 2023 @ 5:47 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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The N.C. Senate gave final approval Tuesday to a bill that allows the non-profit Blue Cross Blue Shield North Carolina and Delta Dental to reorganize and create a holding company for billions in surplus revenue.
Published: Monday, July 17th, 2023 @ 3:51 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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A bipartisan bill that would allow Blue Cross Blue Shield North Carolina and Delta Dental to reorganize and create a holding company that could transfer billions in surplus policyholder money passed in the Senate Commerce and Insurance Committee Wednesday.
Published: Wednesday, July 5th, 2023 @ 8:04 am
By: Carolina Journal
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H.B. 346, Reorganization & Economic Development Act, sailed through three House committees, including Health, Insurance, and Rules, this week before passing 86-26 in the House Thursday and now heads to the Senate.
Published: Saturday, June 3rd, 2023 @ 12:23 am
By: Carolina Journal
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A bipartisan House bill that would allow Blue Cross Blue Shield North Carolina to reorganize and create a holding company that could transfer billions in surplus policyholder money is on its way to the House Rules Committee after passing in the House Insurance Committee Wednesday.
Published: Friday, June 2nd, 2023 @ 5:34 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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NC Insurance Commissioner Mike Causey spoke out against an N.C. House bill that would allow Blue Cross Blue Shield North Carolina to create a holding company in which it could move policyholder money.
Published: Friday, June 2nd, 2023 @ 8:31 am
By: Carolina Journal
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It's about money: $4.6 billion in cash. But it's also about the role this company should play in our state.
Published: Tuesday, May 2nd, 2023 @ 6:55 am
By: Beaufort Observer Editorial Team
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“I will be the best governor money can’t buy,” said Folwell
Published: Saturday, April 15th, 2023 @ 11:18 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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Jim Bostian, Aetna’s market president for North Carolina, addressed the State Health Plan Board of Trustees at their meeting Wednesday, with promises of building upon a seamless transition as the new SHP third-party administrator beginning on Jan. 1, 2025.
Published: Sunday, March 12th, 2023 @ 5:44 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina is going to court to challenge the recent decision to award a major State Health Plan contract to Aetna.
Published: Monday, March 6th, 2023 @ 9:14 am
By: Carolina Journal
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The report states that North Carolina is among the most consolidated and least affordable for healthcare, but its hospitals were three times more profitable than the national average in 2019.
Published: Sunday, March 5th, 2023 @ 8:38 am
By: Carolina Journal
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The North Carolina State Health Plan and State Treasurer Dale Folwell released documents from the Plan’s Request for Proposal process to change its third-party administrator from North Carolina Blue Cross Blue Shield to Aetna at a media event Tuesday.
Published: Wednesday, February 22nd, 2023 @ 1:41 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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The North Carolina State Health Plan announced in a press release on Friday that it had rejected protest appeals for the Third-Party Administrative Services (TPA) contract from Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina and UMR, Inc.
Published: Tuesday, February 7th, 2023 @ 9:11 am
By: Carolina Journal
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On Thursday, Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina (BCBSNC) submitted a 14-page formal protest to Sam Watts, acting administrator of the State Health Plan, opposing the award of the plan’s 2025-27 third-party administrator contract to Aetna.
Published: Monday, January 30th, 2023 @ 10:42 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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Blue Cross and Blue Shield of North Carolina will no longer be the third-party administrator for the State Health Plan come Jan. 1, 2025.
Published: Saturday, January 21st, 2023 @ 1:36 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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The Community Oral Health Transformation (COrHT) Initiative aims to improve outcomes, lower costs, and increase efficiency in oral health care for underserved populations
Published: Wednesday, March 2nd, 2022 @ 1:29 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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Partnership enables students to pursue passion for education in home communities
Published: Monday, July 26th, 2021 @ 9:30 am
By: ECU News Services
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A surgeon’s challenge to make health care more affordable for his patients is another casualty of the coronavirus.
Published: Thursday, April 30th, 2020 @ 1:14 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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Blue Cross Blue Shield N.C. elected Dr. Tunde Sotunde as its president and CEO, starting June 1.
Published: Wednesday, April 1st, 2020 @ 6:32 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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During Sunshine Week — seven days highlighting the public’s right to know about what happens behind the government’s closed doors — much of North Carolina’s health care system remains in the shade.
Published: Saturday, March 21st, 2020 @ 9:00 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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Uncertainty clouds the discussion of how the U.S. should fight the spread of the COVID-19, the flu-like respiratory disease that originated in China in December and was first reported in the U.S. in late January.
Published: Tuesday, March 17th, 2020 @ 1:14 am
By: Carolina Journal
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S.B. 432 passed the House, 94-9, on Wednesday, Oct. 23, and now goes to the Senate.
Published: Wednesday, October 30th, 2019 @ 7:08 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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Days after Blue Cross N.C. made national headlines for concealing the arrest of its CEO Patrick Conway, the state’s largest insurer gave up Friday, Sept. 27, on a $16-billion affiliation with its Pacific Coast counterpart, Cambia Health Solutions.
Published: Tuesday, October 1st, 2019 @ 3:43 am
By: Carolina Journal
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The chief executive officer of Blue Cross N.C. has resigned amid charges of drunken driving and misdemeanor child abuse.
Published: Friday, September 27th, 2019 @ 5:58 am
By: Carolina Journal
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The overhaul of North Carolina’s Medicaid’s infrastructure is caught in the stand-off between Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper and the Republican legislature.
Published: Tuesday, September 10th, 2019 @ 1:58 am
By: Carolina Journal
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As the Obamacare individual marketplace bleeds unsubsidized enrollees, Blue Cross N.C. is looking to reverse a surge of earlier premium increases.
Published: Friday, August 23rd, 2019 @ 5:47 am
By: Carolina Journal
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There has been no shortage of debate on health care issues in the North Carolina General Assembly this session. One of those receiving quite a bit of attention is State Treasurer Dale Folwell's Clear Pricing Project.
Published: Tuesday, July 2nd, 2019 @ 7:59 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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A group of House Republicans is taking another whack at what they call an alternative to Medicaid expansion so uninsured North Carolina residents can obtain health coverage.
Published: Monday, April 29th, 2019 @ 4:30 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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Members of the North Carolina General Assembly will face tough decisions on important health care legislation in the current session.
Published: Sunday, March 17th, 2019 @ 6:33 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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North Carolina's largest insurer has brokered an agreement with three national health care companies to open intensive primary care clinics this year in areas lacking services.
Published: Monday, March 11th, 2019 @ 2:08 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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The North Carolina State Health Plan provides health care coverage to more than 720,000 teachers, state employees, retirees, and their dependents.
Published: Tuesday, January 15th, 2019 @ 11:13 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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