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The full slate of 4th Circuit US Court of Appeals judges offered Thursday contrasting views over a dispute involving North Carolina State Health Plan coverage for transgender health care.
Published: Monday, January 1st, 2024 @ 6:54 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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The North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services today announced recent updates to the NC State Health Improvement Plan, which includes priorities for addressing the full set of factors that impact a person’s health
Published: Friday, November 17th, 2023 @ 5:57 pm
By: ENC NOW
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Twenty-one states, including three of North Carolina's neighbors, support N.C. State Treasurer Dale Folwell and the State Health Plan in a legal fight involving health care requested by transgender patients.
Published: Saturday, July 8th, 2023 @ 8:25 am
By: Carolina Journal
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Blue Cross North Carolina only Losing Bidder to Proceed with Litigation Against State Health Plan
Published: Friday, May 5th, 2023 @ 2:51 am
By: ENC NOW
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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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Pledges "Seamless Transition" as the New Third-Party Administrator in 2025
Published: Wednesday, March 1st, 2023 @ 11:15 pm
By: ENC NOW
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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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North Carolina State Treasurer Dale Folwell said Tuesday the decision to go with Aetna as the third-party administrator for the State Health Plan was in the best interest of plan members.
Published: Sunday, January 29th, 2023 @ 5:10 am
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 North Carolina State Health Plan and Rice University's Baker Institute for Public Policy Find that the Majority of North Carolina's Hospitals Are Overcharging Patients While Profiting Off Medicare
Published: Sunday, October 30th, 2022 @ 9:17 am
By: ENC NOW
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Health equity, education and economic stability for all North Carolinians are key strategies in the 2022 North Carolina State Health Improvement Plan (NC SHIP), which the North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services released today.
Published: Saturday, September 3rd, 2022 @ 1:18 pm
By: ENC NOW
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The North Carolina House Health Committee discussed a bill Thursday that would direct the state health agency to come up with a Medicaid Modernization Plan, to expanding Medicaid with work requirements for the expansion enrollees.
Published: Wednesday, July 6th, 2022 @ 8:35 am
By: Carolina Journal
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The North Carolina State Health Plan and the National Academy for State Health Policy Find that North Carolina's Seven Largest Hospital Systems Reaped Billions of Dollars in Cash, Investments and Profits After Taking COVID Relief
Published: Thursday, June 30th, 2022 @ 7:03 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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The North Carolina State Health Plan and the National Academy for State Health Policy Find that North Carolina's Dominant Hospital Systems Recorded Billions of Dollars in Profits After Taking Taxpayer-Funded COVID Relief
Published: Sunday, June 26th, 2022 @ 11:55 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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The North Carolina State Health Plan and the National Academy of State Health Policy find that nonprofit hospitals have billed millions of dollars to disadvantaged patients.
Published: Thursday, January 27th, 2022 @ 10:09 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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The North Carolina State Health Plan and the National Academy of State Health Policy find that disadvantaged patients received bills from hospitals instead of nonprofit charity care.
Published: Wednesday, January 26th, 2022 @ 1:40 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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The North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services today announced the state’s five Medicaid prepaid health plans have joined NCCARE360 — the nation’s first statewide coordinated care network connecting individuals to local services and resources.
Published: Wednesday, August 4th, 2021 @ 11:09 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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Time is running out for North Carolina’s State Health Plan.
Published: Wednesday, October 28th, 2020 @ 12:38 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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The North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services has received federal funding that will support a key goal of the state’s Early Childhood Action Plan and the Perinatal Health Strategic Plan, reducing maternal mortality.
Published: Friday, September 20th, 2019 @ 4:57 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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When State Treasurer Dale Folwell took office in early 2017, he found North Carolina’s State Health Plan to be in even worse shape than he originally thought.
Published: Thursday, September 5th, 2019 @ 11:48 am
By: Carolina Journal
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With a deadline just 13 days away, Community Care Physician Network, North Carolina’s largest network of independent physician clinics, announced Monday, June 17, it signed on to the State Health Plan’s cost-cutting Clear Pricing Project.
Published: Monday, June 17th, 2019 @ 9:20 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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Tomorrow morning (Tuesday), legislators in the House Health Committee will vote on HB184 - a bad bill that will cost taxpayers and State Health Plan members more than $1 million per day if it's enacted.
Published: Tuesday, March 26th, 2019 @ 8:44 pm
By: Diane Rufino
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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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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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State Treasurer Dale Folwell wants the U.S. Department of Justice to require all North Carolina hospitals to be transparent in their pricing and recover excessive charges hospitals made to the State Health Plan
Published: Sunday, December 2nd, 2018 @ 2:02 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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State Treasurer Dale Folwell gave a chilly reception to issuing a statewide school construction bond even as Gov. Roy Cooper hit the road Tuesday, July 10, pitching one
Published: Friday, July 20th, 2018 @ 10:54 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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State Treasurer Dale Folwell has awarded BlueCross BlueShield of North Carolina the Third Party Administrator contract for the State Health Plan
Published: Thursday, September 21st, 2017 @ 9:03 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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State Treasurer Dale Folwell wants to be more than North Carolina's version of the Dutch boy, his finger plugging the dike of underperforming state health and pension plans
Published: Wednesday, February 8th, 2017 @ 8:38 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Enacted in 1978, North Carolina’s Certificate of Need (CON) law was one of many state CON laws adopted to comply with the federal Health Planning Resources Development Act of 1974.
Published: Friday, November 15th, 2013 @ 8:37 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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North Carolina is among a number of state governments plagued by massive unfunded liabilities for state retirees' health insurance benefits, and, like many of its counterparts, it is placing greater responsibility for costs on members in a movement known as medical consumerism.
Published: Saturday, November 2nd, 2013 @ 10:43 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Imagine you get a new job with good pay and excellent benefits. In fact, the health insurance coverage is the most generous you've seen. You pay nothing for coverage while you are working, and after a set number of years, you can get free coverage in your retirement years as well.
Published: Tuesday, September 4th, 2012 @ 5:14 pm
By: Civitas Insitute
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