{"id":4017,"date":"2013-07-10T08:43:08","date_gmt":"2013-07-10T13:43:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nchealthplans.com\/news\/?p=4017"},"modified":"2013-07-10T08:43:08","modified_gmt":"2013-07-10T13:43:08","slug":"10-essential-health-benefits-with-health-care-reform","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nchealthplans.com\/news\/2013\/07\/10-essential-health-benefits-with-health-care-reform\/","title":{"rendered":"10 Essential Health Benefits with Health Care Reform"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nchealthplans.com\" target=\"_blank\">Health care reform<\/a> mandates that all new 2014 compliant plans include 10 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nchealthplans.com\" target=\"_blank\">Essential Health Benefits<\/a>.<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nchealthplans.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/bigstock-Browse-The-Blue-Members-Blue-18090188.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-4053\" title=\"Browse the Blue Members - Blue Mouse\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nchealthplans.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/bigstock-Browse-The-Blue-Members-Blue-18090188-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nchealthplans.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/bigstock-Browse-The-Blue-Members-Blue-18090188-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.nchealthplans.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/bigstock-Browse-The-Blue-Members-Blue-18090188.jpg 900w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Have a look. Some of these benefits already existed, so new or expanded <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nchealthplans.com\" target=\"_blank\">benefits<\/a> are listed in <strong>bold<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Ambulatory patient services<\/li>\n<li>Emergency Services<\/li>\n<li>Hospitalization<\/li>\n<li><strong>Maternity and newborn care now automatically covered<br \>\n<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Increased benefits for mental health and substance use disorder services including behavioral health treatment <\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Prescription drugs<\/li>\n<li>Rehabilitative and <strong>habilitative services and devices<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Laboratory services<\/li>\n<li>Preventive and wellness services and chronic disease management<\/li>\n<li><strong>Pediatric services, including oral and vision care<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>For more information on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nchealthplans.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">health insurance coverage in North Carolina<\/a>, please visit our website at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nchealthplans.com\/\">www.nchealthplans.com<\/a> or call our toll free number 888-765-5400 and speak with one of our         professional agents. Our agency provides coverage for health   insurance       in North Carolina through <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nchealthplans.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina (BCBSNC). <\/a>You may qualify for a 15% healthy lifestyle discount if you are in excellent health. Call us for details.<\/p>\n<p>The information in this article was taken from &#8220;Health Care Reform is Coming&#8221; from BCBSNC on April 2013.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Health care reform mandates that all new 2014 compliant plans include 10 Essential Health Benefits. Have a look. Some of these benefits already existed, so new or expanded benefits are listed in bold: Ambulatory patient services Emergency Services Hospitalization Maternity and newborn care now automatically covered Increased benefits for mental health and substance use disorder [&hellip;]<\/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":[23,523,820],"class_list":["post-4017","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bcbsnc-insurance","tag-bcbsnc","tag-essential-health-benefits","tag-health-care-reform"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nchealthplans.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4017","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=4017"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.nchealthplans.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4017\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4055,"href":"https:\/\/www.nchealthplans.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4017\/revisions\/4055"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nchealthplans.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4017"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nchealthplans.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4017"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nchealthplans.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4017"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}