Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina earned a very high customer satisfaction score and with all of the concerns over health insurer quality, this bodes well for BCBS. According to the article “North Carolina Health Insurer Earns High Customer Satisfaction Score” by Bob Graham on IFAWebNews.com, BCBS of North Carolina ranked second best in [...]
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Top North Carolina Health Insurance Companies
We Below are the top 10 health insurance companies in North Carolina, ranked by 2011 market share according to the National Association for Insurance Commissioners (NAIC) Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina United Healthcare Ins Co. United Healthcare of NC inc. Humana Ins. Co, Partners National Health Plans of NC Coventry Health and Life [...]
Medicare Health Plans in Raleigh NC
Continuing a series of posts that will recognize the best value in Medicare health plans in major metropolitan areas across the country, Medicarenewswatch.com rated the following plans as tops in Raleigh North Carolina. Yesterday’s post gives some background on the methodology used. For Healthy Seniors, the Medicare Plans judged to be the best value were: [...]
North Carolina Health Insurance Rates
According to a recent report released by Families USA, North Carolina health insurance rates have increased sharply. It now costs over $13,000 to insure the average North Carolina family via an employer sponsored health insurance plan. Of that amount, the family will end up paying $4,000-$5,000 out of pocket. The cost of Group health insurance [...]
North Carolina State Health Plan’s Staggering Losses
The State Health Plan – North Carolina’s health plan for state employees lost $137.6 Million in the fiscal year ending in June 2008. The plan covers roughly 667,000 North Carolinians. The primary driver of the financial implosion was the introduction of a more generous PPO health insurance option that prompted 76,000 existing enrollees to switch [...]
Top North Carolina Health Insurance Plans
The top North Carolina health insurance plans as ranked by US News and World report’s annual health plan ranking report are displayed below. Of particular note is that a number of health insurers including the states oldest and largest health insurance company, BCBSNC, have chosen to not supply internal data that is required to provide [...]
BCBSNC Offers Free Generic Prescriptions
In an effort to assist North Carolinians through tough financial times brought on by the global recession, Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina (BCBSNC) has waived the co-payments on generic prescription drugs for the first half of 2009 (through June ’09). The waiver supplements a similar program that BCBSNC is running in 2008 called [...]
2008 Health Plan Rankings
US News and World Report recently released their health plan rankings for 2008, based on NCQA Data collection and analysis. The 4th annual rankings provided via the collaboration between US News and the NCQA, aims to help health insurance shoppers select quality health plans. Costs will likely always be one of the most if not [...]
