Press Releases

Durham, N.C. – Blue Cross and Blue Shield of North Carolina (Blue Cross NC) and Novant Health will offer a new product, Blue HomeSM with Novant Health, in the Charlotte and Winston-Salem regions. A Blue Home with Novant Health plan can offer up to eight...

Durham, N.C. – Blue Cross and Blue Shield of North Carolina (Blue Cross NC) will be reducing rates by an average of one percent statewide for 2021 Affordable Care Act (ACA) plans offered to individuals. This is the third straight year that Blue Cross NC...

DURHAM, N.C. – Health care providers in the Blue Premier value-based care program collaborated with Blue Cross and Blue Shield of North Carolina (Blue Cross NC) to generate an estimated $153 million in cost savings, quality improvements and a slowdown in...

DURHAM, N.C. – In anticipation of Tropical Storm Isaias affecting North Carolina, Blue Cross and Blue Shield of North Carolina (Blue Cross NC) is allowing early prescription refills to ensure that customers have access to the prescription drugs they...

DURHAM, N.C., and BETHESDA, Md. – Blue Cross and Blue Shield of North Carolina (Blue Cross NC) and Aledade today announced that their collaboration on North Carolina physician-led Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs) helped nearly 50 primary care...

DURHAM, N.C. – Blue Cross and Blue Shield of North Carolina (Blue Cross NC) announced it is lowering how much members pay for a 90-day supply of maintenance medications through the end of 2020. The move is designed to help ease financial burdens...

Durham, N.C. – Blue Cross and Blue Shield of North Carolina (Blue Cross NC) released the following statement on Governor Roy Cooper’s signing of Senate Bill 808 which funds the state’s move to managed care for Medicaid. Dr. Tunde Sotunde, President and...

DURHAM, N.C. – Blue Cross and Blue Shield of North Carolina (Blue Cross NC) is significantly expanding its support of primary care by creating Accelerate to Value, a program to help independently owned primary care physician practices remain financially...

DURHAM, N.C. – Blue Cross and Blue Shield of North Carolina (Blue Cross NC) announced it is extending its expanded reimbursement policy for doctor visits by video or phone through the end of the year and will continue to cover these telehealth visits the...

Durham Technical Community College and Blue Cross and Blue Shield of North Carolina (Blue Cross NC) have launched a new mobile health lab as a part of a $1 million grant to the College, which will allow students and supervising practitioners to travel...