Commercial enrollment in North Carolina and South Carolina increased slightly between January 2010 and January 2010. However, a lagging economy continues to make increased market share a difficult pro…
The recent renewal cycle was especially challenging for employers in the Carolinas, owing to the poor economy and new requirements under federal healthcare reform. Carriers continued to increase copay…
Commercial carriers are trying to weather uncertain times as the government imposes new regulations under health reform. In advance of new rules governing medical loss ratios, Bradley Wilson, the new…
Stakeholders in the healthcare industry are looking at the health reform law, planning ways to minimize losses and take advantage of opportunities. In North Carolina, federal and state high risk pools…
Managed Medicaid continues to evolve in South Carolina with the consolidation of plans, peaks in enrollment and proposed cost containment measures. To help keep Medicaid prescription drug costs in lin…
Employers in North Carolina and South Carolina are turning to so-called hybrid plans to help them continue to offer coverage in one of the regions worst hit by job losses. The hybrid plans combine fea…
South Carolina's expanded Medicaid managed care program attracted a crowd of health plans interested in insuring beneficiaries, but the crowd is thinning with two MCOs throwing in the towel in 200…
BlueCross BlueShield of South Carolina is more than just the 800-pound gorilla in the Palmetto State's healthcare market – it is parent to a family of successful subsidiary companies that provide…
The recession is making a big impact on health plans in the Carolinas-commercial plans predict enrollment will drop in the coming months and Medicaid rolls already are increasing. Employers are changi…
Premium increases moderated in the Carolinas in 2008 with health plan costs per employee rising by 6 percent to 10 percent, but the increases are expected to accelerate in the coming months. Brokers a…
More than 37 percent of Medicaid beneficiaries in South Carolina who could join a managed care plan in the state's Healthy Connections program have done so by August of 2008. Eight health plans ar…
Health plans in the Carolinas are managing specialty pharmacy costs at virtually every step of the process, from negotiating prices with manufacturers to creating special convenient networks. Blue Cro…
Blue Cross and Blue Shield of North Carolina is upping the ante on transparency with its new Health Cost Estimator by offering contracted prices instead of provider charges, and by estimating the cost…