North Carolina continues to roll out Medicaid managed care, despite a lack of funding from the legislature and a lawsuit pending against one of the insurers slotted to become a managed care organization. Open enrollment for Medicaid managed care began statewide Thursday, Oct. 17. The switch to managed care is arguably the biggest transformation of...
A multibillion-dollar deal is dead. Days after Blue Cross N.C. made national headlines for concealing the arrest of its CEO Patrick Conway, the state’s largest insurer gave up Friday, Sept. 27, on a $16-billion affiliation with its Pacific Coast counterpart, Cambia Health Solutions. Police arrested Conway in June on charges of drunken driving and misdemeanor...
The chief executive officer of Blue Cross N.C. has resigned amid charges of drunken driving and misdemeanor child abuse. Dr. Patrick Conway was arrested in June after he sideswiped a truck driving on Interstate 85. His two young daughters were in the back of the car. The BlueCross N.C. Board of Trustees asked Conway for...
