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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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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In response to Hurricane Dorian, Blue Cross and Blue Shield of North Carolina (Blue Cross NC) has taken steps to ensure customers’ access to their prescription drug needs are uninterrupted due to the aftermath of the storm.
Published: Thursday, September 12th, 2019 @ 1:35 pm
By: Daniel Bunting
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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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On Monday, Blue Cross Blue Shield (BCBS) of North Carolina announced it is requesting a decrease in rates for plans on the North Carolina Obamacare Exchange
Published: Sunday, September 23rd, 2018 @ 3:57 am
By: Civitas Insitute
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Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina, the state's largest health insurance provider, is giving $159,000 to five counties to cut debt in their school lunch programs
Published: Friday, May 25th, 2018 @ 7:35 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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The state's largest health insurance company is removing a community hospital in Stokes County from its network after an alleged scheme to score millions in insurance revenue
Published: Monday, May 21st, 2018 @ 2:58 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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The proposed partnership making UNC Health Care and Carolinas HealthCare System one of the largest nonprofit health systems in the nation has a new antagonist: BlueCross BlueShield of North Carolina
Published: Wednesday, January 24th, 2018 @ 6:01 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina has just been approved to raise the premiums of its health plans within the state's Affordable Care Act exchanges by an average of 24 percent
Published: Wednesday, October 19th, 2016 @ 11:59 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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While Duke Energy is passing higher costs to ratepayers because state law forces it to purchase renewable energy, the utility also claimed a whopping $62.8 million in tax write-offs in 2014 for its own investments in green power projects.
Published: Thursday, June 11th, 2015 @ 3:36 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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We hear a lot about ObamaCare / KayCare from political activists, politicians, hacks extraordinaire.
Published: Monday, December 23rd, 2013 @ 11:43 pm
By: Brant Clifton
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Obamacare's health insurance exchanges offer four "metallic" levels of plans: bronze, silver, gold, and platinum. Bronze plans cover 60 percent of benefits, meaning consumers will be responsible for higher out-of-pocket expenses such as co-pays, co-insurance, and deductibles. Meanwhile, platinum...
Published: Monday, December 9th, 2013 @ 7:53 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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The federal health care law known as Obamacare creates more problems for North Carolinians than just the faulty website that has generated recent headlines. A new John Locke Foundation Spotlight report documents key Obamacare flaws and offers alternatives for addressing health care needs.
Published: Wednesday, December 4th, 2013 @ 3:19 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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The federal health care law known as Obamacare creates more problems for North Carolinians than just the faulty website that has generated recent headlines.
Published: Saturday, November 30th, 2013 @ 3:44 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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It's a far cry from those heady days in 2008 and 2009 when a certain former state senator from Greensboro aspiring to be a US senator was telling us that we were going to eat every bit of our ObamaCare, and we were going to like it.
Published: Wednesday, November 13th, 2013 @ 6:01 pm
By: Brant Clifton
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While technical glitches on the health-insurance exchanges are getting a lot of attention, that’s not the real problem that Obamacare faces. It is fundamentally, conceptually flawed. Even if it “works,” in the sense that people navigate their way to signing up, it won’t work as originally...
Published: Wednesday, October 9th, 2013 @ 3:26 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Concern is rising among community health centers that serve nearly a half million patients in North Carolina yearly - most of them uninsured - that Obamacare may drain away their patients and doctors. Meantime, officials say, patients are antsy about how the law will affect them.
Published: Thursday, September 26th, 2013 @ 5:52 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Health care is likely to be the second-biggest issue in next year's midterm elections (the condition of the economy will be #1). But while North Carolina Democrats and liberal activists would like the management of the state Department of Health and Human Services to define the health care issue...
Published: Monday, September 23rd, 2013 @ 10:09 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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North Carolina consumers could be the biggest losers after one of three insurance carriers that applied to participate in the Obamacare federal exchange announced its decision on Thursday to withdraw from the government-approved marketplace, health experts say. They cite the lack of competition...
Published: Wednesday, September 18th, 2013 @ 10:37 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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FirstCarolinaCare Insurance Company is withdrawing from participation in the federal health exchange. Uninsured North Carolina consumers will have only two provider options from which to purchase policies approved by federal regulators and mandated under the Affordable Care Act (aka Obamacare)...
Published: Sunday, September 15th, 2013 @ 10:42 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Individual health insurance premiums in North Carolina would spike as much as 80 percent on average due to the effects of Obamacare mandates if plans submitted by Blue Cross Blue Shield North Carolina receive federal approval as expected.
Published: Saturday, September 7th, 2013 @ 12:00 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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The North Carolina Institute of Medicine's Task Force on Early Childhood Obesity Prevention, which has spent the last two years brainstorming new policy ideas to decrease obesity in children, soon may go beyond school cafeterias and private child care facilities and take its programs right...
Published: Tuesday, September 3rd, 2013 @ 3:55 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Blue Cross and Blue Shield of North Carolina (BCBSNC) has awarded Southside FFA a grant through Nourishing North Carolina, a statewide community garden effort making local, healthy food more accessible to people across the state.
Published: Tuesday, May 7th, 2013 @ 7:19 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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