{"id":1621,"date":"2008-12-07T12:00:04","date_gmt":"2008-12-07T17:00:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/healthnews.nchealthplans.com\/?p=1621"},"modified":"2010-06-23T21:21:34","modified_gmt":"2010-06-24T02:21:34","slug":"bcbs-claims-and-company-information","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nchealthplans.com\/news\/2008\/12\/bcbs-claims-and-company-information\/","title":{"rendered":"BCBSNC Claims and Company Information"},"content":{"rendered":"

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What Does Blue Cross\u00a0and Blue Shield\u00a0of North Carolina<\/a>\u00a0Do In A Day’s Work?<\/h3>\n

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Number of claims processed: 137,971<\/span><\/p>\n

Value of claims handled: $30,872,548<\/span><\/p>\n

Customers served: 3,598,696<\/span><\/p>\n

Number of customer service calls: 36,813<\/span><\/p>\n

Number of BCBSNC<\/a> employees: 4,497<\/span><\/p>\n

Daily tax obligation: $573,586<\/span><\/p>\n

Payments to vendors: $1,434,200<\/span><\/p>\n

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All across the state, millions of people depend on Blue Cross and <\/a><\/span>Blue Shield of North Carolina<\/a> to protect them financially. Without health <\/span>insurance, a customer could lose a lifetime of savings in a matter of days <\/span>because of a serious illness. <\/span>Doctors, hospitals, pharmacies and customers all across North Carolina <\/span>depend on those payments. Having the funds on hand to meet this <\/span>huge and growing responsibility is a duty\u00a0they take very seriously.\u00a0 <\/span>Every day, they\u00a0handle approximately $30.9 million in health claims.* In <\/span>2007, they handled a staggering amount in claims \u2013 about $9.4 billion.* <\/span>That\u2019s a big number to wrap your head around. Other North Carolina <\/span>economic figures help put this amount in perspective.<\/span><\/p>\n
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Source: BCBSNC internal calculation of growth in customers served between 2000 and 2007.<\/pre>\n
Source: U.S. Census Bureau population estimates program, 2007.Vendor payments and customer calls based on 250 business<\/pre>\n
days in 2007. Claims and tax numbers based on 303 claims processing days in 2007. Customer data as of 12\/31\/2007.<\/pre>\n
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For more information on health insurance coverage in North Carolina<\/a>, please visit our website at www.nchealthplans.com<\/a> or call our toll free number 888-765-5400 and speak with one of our qualified agents.\u00a0 Our agency provides coverage for health insurance in North Carolina through Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina\u00a0(BCBSNC).\u00a0 <\/a>You may qualify for a 15% healthy lifestyle discount if you are in excellent health.\u00a0 Call us for details.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
What Does Blue Cross\u00a0and Blue Shield\u00a0of North Carolina\u00a0Do In A Day’s Work? \u00a0 Number of claims processed: 137,971 Value of claims handled: $30,872,548 Customers served: 3,598,696 Number of customer service calls: 36,813 Number of BCBSNC employees: 4,497 Daily tax obligation: $573,586 Payments to vendors: $1,434,200 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[23,376,195,152,194],"class_list":["post-1621","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bcbsnc-insurance","tag-bcbsnc","tag-bcbsnc-claims","tag-bcbsnc-company-information","tag-blue-cross-blue-shield-of-nc","tag-claims"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nchealthplans.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1621","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nchealthplans.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nchealthplans.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nchealthplans.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nchealthplans.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1621"}],"version-history":[{"count":19,"href":"https:\/\/www.nchealthplans.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1621\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3003,"href":"https:\/\/www.nchealthplans.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1621\/revisions\/3003"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nchealthplans.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1621"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nchealthplans.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1621"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nchealthplans.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1621"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}