Blue Cross and Blue Shield of North Carolina is once again helping members out with their prescription drug costs with a new generic copayment waiver program. This new version is a more revised and condensed edition of the generic copayment waiver programs that they have used in previous years.
Under this new Generic Waiver Program, copayments and [...]
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Replacing health benefits after unemployment
Published by November 24th, 2008 in Health Insurance.0 Comments
According to Anna Wilde Mathews in The Wall Street Journal (11, 20) Healthy Consumer Column, around 1.2 million jobs have been lost so far this year, pushing a large number of people to deal with losing the health benefits that come with unemployment.
Kathleen Murray, of consultant Mercer, claims that the best thing to do, if [...]
Hospital quality program successful for Blue Cross and Blue Shield
Published by November 24th, 2008 in BCBSNC.0 Comments
The Blue Cross and Blue Shield Association has been victorious with their hospital quality program. The association revealed at a news conference recently that patient outcomes have significantly improved, and costs have been diminished.
The program has been implemented in 45 states with certified centers containing four categories: cardiac care, bariatric surgery, transplants and complicated and [...]
Physician’s plan for more access and affordability of primary care
Published by November 17th, 2008 in Health Insurance.0 Comments
In the Doctor’s Office column of the Wall Street Journal (11,13) Benjamin Brewer M.D. explains that even though people with health coverage with their employers may be currently happy with things as they are, the hurting economy and developing problems in primary care are causing things to get worse. He writes that most people are [...]
Mayors and governors push congress to increase unemployment insurance and Medicaid spending
Published by November 17th, 2008 in Health Insurance.0 Comments
The mayors and governors of the U.S. are pushing Congress to boost the economy by extending unemployment insurance and increasing funding for Medicaid.
They believe that the foremost way to help the economy is to intensify spending at the local level. Some governors are even cultivating a federal spending plan that could amount to $126 billion. [...]
Health coverage sluggish for N.C. kids
Published by November 17th, 2008 in Health Insurance.0 Comments
The amount of children without insurance in North Carolina was already increasing by the thousands, as the economy plummeted this year. N.C. is now ranked number 6Â in the U.S. for the amount of children lacking health insurance coverage. Surprisingly, most of these children, almost 300,000, lived with working parents.
Using data from the U.S. Census Bureau, [...]
Increased risk of death linked to lack of insurance
Published by November 10th, 2008 in Health Insurance.0 Comments
If you are not insured, you should get health insurance to avoid getting a devastating diagnosis that could mean an early death.
David Noonan, in his Newsweek (11, 3) column, writes that “what insurance (and the lack of it) often represents, as numerous studies have shown, is the difference between care and no care, between an [...]
