Health Insurance

The U.S. Census Bureau’s American Community Survey recently released data for 2023 about health insurance for every state including North Carolina.

North Carolina’s state treasurer Dale Folwell has put out an urgent call to shore up funding for state health plan. Lawmakers haven’t budged.

North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper says nearly 100 hospitals have agreed to participate in a first-of-its-kind initiative that could help low- and middle-income patients get rid of billions of dollars in debt. These hospitals will get even higher Medicaid payments if medical debt on their books get cleared and they carry out ways for future patients to avoid liabilities.

Aetna is poised to manage health coverage plan benefits for North Carolina state workers and teachers next year because Blue Cross and Blue Shield of North Carolina won't appeal a judge’s decision that upheld Aetna as the next contract winner.

More than 500,000 North Carolina residents have enrolled in state's Medicaid expansion program in the seven months since it was launched.

A North Carolina judge has upheld the state employee health plan’s decision in 2022 to chose Aetna to administer the plan starting next January.

The number of people who have enrolled in Medicaid in North Carolina since expansion began in December is now over 310,000. Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper offered that figure on Wednesday while at a Raleigh event with the nation’s chief Medicaid regulator to talk about expansion and those getting other subsidized insurance offered through the Affordable Care Act.

The measure would permit Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina, the state's dominant insurance provider, and Delta Dental to transfer money from its current hospital service companies into new shell companies run by the same executive leadership.

“It's not Blue Cross's money — this is the people's money,” state Insurance Commissioner Mike Causey told legislators before the vote, urging them to protect his ability to hold insurers accountable to their consumers.

The N.C. Treasurer's office rejected two appeals of its decision to award the State Health Plan's administration contract to Aetna.