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Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina, the United Way and Lyft are among those working to make sure that everyone who wants a COVID-19 vaccine can get it.

Blue Cross and Blue Shield of North Carolina (Blue Cross NC) began enrolling its first members in Healthy Blue on March 15. The Medicaid managed care plan features a provider network with more than 48,000 physicians and other practitioners, including most of the state’s hospitals and health systems.

A recent $500,000 donation from Blue Cross and Blue Shield of North Carolina brought them close to their goal of $1 million for metastatic breast cancer research grants.

This $90 million facility, under construction on a prime corner of campus, now has a new name that honors A&T’s current chancellor who has devoted the majority of his life to both engineering and the university. (Harold Martin serves on the Board of Trustees for Blue Cross and Blue Shield of North Carolina.)

Duke head coach Kara Lawson and members of her women's basketball staff have teamed with Blue Cross & Blue Shield of North Carolina to distribute meals with the Durham Children's Initiative on Thursday, March 11.

Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina's medical claims reached a record $7.5 billion in 2020, a 7.7% increase over 2019 that was driven by COVID-19 and specialty drug costs and lower Affordable Care Act plan premiums.

John Lumpkin, president of the BCBSNC Foundation, emphasized that the communities most at risk are the ones that have been adversely affected by public and private policies reflecting decades of disinvestment.

For Dr. John Scheitler, a primary care doctor in Gastonia, North Carolina, life feels like the movie Groundhog Day. Every day he tries to do right by his patients and hopes he’s done enough to keep himself and his family safe. But back in March, this didn’t feel routine.

After attending a filtration conference in late February, Dr. Behnam Pourdeyhimi returned to North Carolina determined to create filters for masks at North Carolina State University (NC State). “At the conference,” he said, “we already knew the pandemic was coming. It was all we could talk about.”

A few people on the BNC list are prominent figures in North Carolina, including CEOs Ellison, Tunde Sotunde of Blue Cross and Blue Shield, and Gene Woods of Atrium Health...Sotunde, 55, took the job last June in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, which reflected higher infection and death rates among minorities. The executive’s international roots and accomplishments as a physician and businessman should enable him to help “reshape health care,” Blue Cross Chair Frank Holding Jr. said at his hiring. It’s the state’s largest insurer with more than 3.7 million members.