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DURHAM, N.C. – Blue Cross and Blue Shield of North Carolina (Blue Cross NC), advancing its efforts to transform health care, has signed new value-based, multi-year agreements with Atrium Health and Novant Health – two of North Carolina’s largest health...

A few months ago, an employee of a large health system and I spoke about the current state of our health system. He shared a very sad account of a family member with a brain tumor. As the hospital system and the insurer worked through the rather inefficient approval processes leading up to the surgery, the tumor more than doubled in size requiring a more invasive and risky removal procedure.

Imagine you are sitting at your desk one morning, and you have just received some distressful news about your company — a high-level data breach, for example. You start to feel some tightness in your chest because of the magnitude of the news. Then your arm starts tingling. A few minutes later, your smart watch has sent you a notification that your heart rate and blood pressure levels are not normal.

RALEIGH N.C. – Blue Cross and Blue Shield of North Carolina (Blue Cross NC) announced its collaboration with the Rural Advancement Foundation International-USA (RAFI-USA) for the first time to fund the Double SNAP Dollars Collaborative, a partnership...

Blue Cross and Blue Shield of North Carolina (Blue Cross NC) awarded Pretty In Pink Foundation a three-year gift to fund medical treatment for 135 low-income, uninsured North Carolinians with breast cancer across the state.

Chicago, IL – Bryony Winn, chief strategy and innovation officer for Blue Cross and Blue Shield of North Carolina (Blue Cross NC), is among Modern Healthcare’s 2019 class of Top 25 Emerging Leaders (formerly Up and Comers). Modern Healthcare, the leader...