“The bike lady” doesn’t own a car. And the only bike she owns has a flat tire and permanently decorates a wall in a local wine shop. But “the bike lady” cycles almost everywhere she goes.

Outdoor Nation has teamed up with Blue Cross and Blue Shield of North Carolina and North Carolina Recreation and Park Association to encourage young people to get outside and get active.

Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina reported Thursday that it had exceeded health care spending benchmarks by spending 87 percent of premium revenues on paying for care for its customers.

Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina has unveiled an online tool, called Blue Map, to help North Carolinians navigate through potential changes to their health care coverage.

Telecommuting and flexible work schedules. Phased retirement programs. Free health-care benefits. Retirement-planning seminars. Emergency eldercare services. Those are just a few of the perks offered by some of the companies on the list compiled this year by AARP and the Society for Human Resource Management, or SHRM, an association for human-resource professionals.

Individuals buying health insurance coverage on new online exchange marketplaces beginning this fall will be choosing from products from only two or three carriers, a top state executive with Coventry Health Care explained Tuesday.

Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina will vacate its landmark headquarters in Chapel Hill next year as the insurer consolidates its Triangle workforce on its expanding Durham campus.

More than 5,000 employees at 81 companies in the state lost a combined 13,805 pounds since January as part of the "Get Fit Challenge" put on by Blue Cross and Blue Shield of North Carolina, the state's largest health insurer.

In a signpost pointing to health insurance changes under the nation’s new health care law, North Carolina’s largest insurer has warned of steep rate increases for customers who have typically paid below-average premiums.

A laboratory-classroom in North Carolina Central University’s new Nursing Building will be formally dedicated as the Blue Cross and Blue Shield of North Carolina Health Assessment Room in a ceremony on Wednesday, April 24, at 11:45 a.m.