Blue Cross and Blue Shield of North Carolina (BCBSNC) today broke ground on an environmentally friendly building that will use 65 percent less energy and half the water per square foot of the company’s traditional office space.

Blue Cross and Blue Shield of North Carolina’s Million Step March (MSM) arrived at the Green Uptown in Charlotte, where local leaders and VIPs from the Charlotte Bobcats and Carolina Panthers joined the statewide physical activity campaign.

Blue Cross and Blue Shield of North Carolina (BCBSNC) has leased its former downtown Durham headquarters to the Duke University School of Medicine’s physician assistant (PA) program, in an effort to improve access to health care and expand primary care services for.

Susan Helm-Murtagh, who began her career at Blue Cross and Blue Shield of North Carolina 13 years ago, has been named vice president of IS Decision Support at (BCBSNC).

Blue Cross and Blue Shield of North Carolina (BCBSNC) and Duke University Health System (DUHS) announced today that they have reached a multi-year agreement for DUHS to continue participating in BCBSNC’s networks.

North Carolina, put on your walking shoes! Blue Cross and Blue Shield of North Carolina (BCBSNC) is launching the “Million Step March,” a 600-mile statewide wellness initiative to promote the benefits of physical activity. Participants will walk from Asheville to Wilmington and can be tracked on an interactive Web site along the way.

Haywood Regional Medical Center has withdrawn from the networks of Blue Cross and Blue Shield of North Carolina (BCBSNC) – voluntarily and temporarily – as it addresses issues raised in recent inspections by the federal Medicare program.

The Blue Cross and Blue Shield of North Carolina Foundation has invested $692,183 in 14 organizations through grants to support programs designed to improve the health of vulnerable populations and promote physical activity and nutrition.

Today Blue Cross and Blue Shield of North Carolina (BCBSNC) is announcing the launch of a new Web site. The site has digitally captured one of the North Carolina Museum of History’s longest-running and most popular exhibits, “Health and Healing Experiences in North Carolina,” which ran from 1998 to 2007.

BCBSNC, the state’s largest health insurer, is publishing online the average prices it pays statewide for physician office visits, diagnostic procedures and screenings, prescription drugs, and disease treatments. The Health Cost Estimator, now available to members at bcbsnc.com , includes one of the most comprehensive listings of total average costs related to diseases and conditions of any health insurance plan.