HCA Healthcare, Inc., one of the nation’s leading health care providers, became the first hospital system to sign an agreement to join the statewide network for North Carolina’s Children and Families Specialty Plan (CFSP).
A first-of-its-kind initiative, the CFSP is a single, statewide NC Medicaid Managed Care plan that will wrap Medicaid-enrolled children, youth and young adults currently and formerly served by child welfare with seamless, integrated and coordinated health care. When the North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services launches CFSP on Dec. 1, 2025, Blue Cross and Blue Shield of North Carolina (Blue Cross NC) will manage it under the name Healthy Blue Care Together.
“We are proud to participate in the Children and Families Specialty Plan network and its innovative approach to delivering care for children and families served by child welfare services," said Greg Lowe, CEO of Mission Health and Mission Hospital. "These children and their families are among some of the most vulnerable in our state and they deserve our support. This partnership reflects HCA Healthcare's ongoing commitment to improving health outcomes for all and strengthening the communities we serve.”
Healthy Blue Care Together is part of North Carolina’s commitment to improving the long-term health and well-being of children experiencing child welfare services and to strengthen and support families. While informed by local needs and coordination, the CFSP will operate statewide, ensuring members can access the health care services they need, including behavioral health, and continue to work with their doctors as placements may move them across the state.
“We are thankful to have HCA Healthcare join us in this important work to improve the health and well-being of children, youth and families currently and formerly served by child welfare services,” said Angela Boykin, CEO of Blue Cross NC’s Medicaid Managed Care plans, Healthy Blue and Healthy Blue Care Together. “HCA has shown its commitment to our state and supporting a strong and healthy future for children in foster care. We encourage hospital systems across the state to join us in serving the state’s most vulnerable children as we prepare for Dec. 1, 2025, launch.”
At launch, Healthy Blue Care Together will serve approximately 32,000 children, youth and young adults currently and formerly served by child welfare. Children of these eligible populations will also be enrolled at launch and maintain enrollment while their parents are enrolled.
Phase 2 of the new health plan will include Medicaid-eligible families of CFSP members.
About HCA Healthcare
Nashville-based HCA Healthcare is one of the nation’s leading providers of health care services comprising 192 hospitals and approximately 2,500 ambulatory sites of care, including surgery centers, freestanding ERs, urgent care centers, and physician clinics, in 20 states and the United Kingdom. With its founding in 1968, HCA Healthcare created a new model for hospital care in the United States, using combined resources to strengthen hospitals, deliver patient-focused care and improve the practice of medicine. HCA Healthcare has conducted a number of clinical studies, including one that demonstrated that full-term delivery is healthier than early elective delivery of babies and another that identified a clinical protocol that can reduce bloodstream infections in ICU patients by 44%. HCA Healthcare is a learning health system that uses its approximately 44 million annual patient encounters to advance science, improve patient care and save lives.
About Blue Cross and Blue Shield of North Carolina
Blue Cross NC, the leading not-for-profit health plan in North Carolina, is committed to making health care more affordable, easier to navigate and accessible for all. Since 1933, the health insurer has created programs and initiatives to provide North Carolinians the opportunity to be healthy. Blue Cross NC serves its customers and communities of more than 4.2 million members, including approximately 1.1 million on behalf of other Blue Plans. Blue Cross NC is an independent licensee of the Blue Cross and Blue Shield Association. Visit Blue Cross NC online at bluecrossnc.com. All other marks are the property of their respective owners.
