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RALEIGH N.C. – Blue Cross and Blue Shield of North Carolina (Blue Cross NC) announced it is investing $350,000 in Community Home Trust (CHT) to transform affordable apartments at The Landings at Winmore into healthier, more sustainable living spaces for...

An interactive model of the brain, touch-screen games, and a digital medicine cabinet are just a few of the new features in the Poe Center’s renovated Substance Use Prevention theater. Funded with a generous gift from Blue Cross and Blue Shield of North Carolina (Blue Cross NC)...

Homeless couples with children needing emergency shelter soon will have more options to stay together, thanks to a new program at the Salvation Army Center of Hope. The shelter, which previously accepted only women and children, has added rooms for entire families, including fathers. A two-year, $300,00 grant from Blue Cross Blue Shield of north Carolina funded renovations at the shelter, program staffing, hotel vouchers and money for up-front housing costs like rent and deposits for families after leaving the shelter.

Small business owners with one to 50 employees can cut the cost of their employee insurance plans by as much as 15 percent with a new Blue Cross and Blue Shield of North Carolina plan offered in strict partnership with Wake Forest Baptist Health.

Durham, N.C., Winston-Salem, N.C. – Blue Cross and Blue Shield of North Carolina (Blue Cross NC) and Wake Forest Baptist Health announced an agreement that could reduce Affordable Care Act (ACA) rates for small business customers with one to 50 eligible...

Almost a year after Blue Cross and Blue Shield of North Carolina teamed up with five N.C. health systems to curb medical cost increases, the insurer announced this week that Charlotte’s two major health care systems have joined the plan. With the addition of Atrium Health and Novant Health, the program, called Blue Premier, will be working with seven of the state’s largest health systems starting next year.

DURHAM, N.C. – Blue Cross and Blue Shield of North Carolina (Blue Cross NC), advancing its efforts to transform health care, has signed new value-based, multi-year agreements with Atrium Health and Novant Health – two of North Carolina’s largest health...

A few months ago, an employee of a large health system and I spoke about the current state of our health system. He shared a very sad account of a family member with a brain tumor. As the hospital system and the insurer worked through the rather inefficient approval processes leading up to the surgery, the tumor more than doubled in size requiring a more invasive and risky removal procedure.