{"id":4632,"date":"2014-08-29T11:54:44","date_gmt":"2014-08-29T15:54:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nchealthplans.com\/news\/?p=4632"},"modified":"2022-02-07T12:00:28","modified_gmt":"2022-02-07T17:00:28","slug":"the-power-of-prevention","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nchealthplans.com\/news\/2014\/08\/the-power-of-prevention\/","title":{"rendered":"The Power of Prevention"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nchealthplans.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/bigstockphoto_prevention_ave_4836429.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-2677\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nchealthplans.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/bigstockphoto_prevention_ave_4836429-300x256.jpg\" alt=\"bigstockphoto_prevention_ave_4836429\" width=\"300\" height=\"256\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nchealthplans.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/bigstockphoto_prevention_ave_4836429-300x256.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.nchealthplans.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/bigstockphoto_prevention_ave_4836429.jpg 900w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \><\/a>&#8220;<em><strong>An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.&#8221; &#8211; Benjamin Franklin<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Preventive Care is\u00a0 the single most effective way to maintain health and wellness and that is why <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nchealthplans.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina<\/a> is committed to providing customers with preventive health care options that are covered at 100% on every health plan available, including <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nchealthplans.com\/individual-and-family-plans\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Blue Advantage, Blue Value and Blue Select, and Blue Local.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>A leader in the industry for preventive care, Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina was the first health insurer in the nation to cover physician office visits and diagnostic tests and to treat obesity as a primary condition.\u00a0 They led the way in offering co-payment waivers for generic drugs, providing free nutritionist visits and rewarding North Carolina residents for routine physical activity.\u00a0 Preventive Care includes all medical services related to the prevention of disease, provided by or upon the direction of a doctor or other provider and includes routine physical checkups, mammograms, colonoscopies and many other wellness exams, as expressed in the preventive care guidelines.\u00a0 For a complete list of preventive care services<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bcbsnc.com\/assets\/campaigns\/public\/preventive\/pdf\/hcr_preventive_services_ind.pdf\"> click here.<\/a>\u00a0 Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina understands the power of prevention and\u00a0they are pleased to provide\u00a0customers with the coverage you need to stay well.<\/p>\n<p>For more information on Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina insurance coverage, please visit our website at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nchealthplans.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">www.nchealthplans.com <\/a>or call our toll free number 888-765-5400 and speak with one of our experienced and professional agents.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Calibri;\"><span style=\"color: #333333; font-family: Georgia;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.&#8221; &#8211; Benjamin Franklin Preventive Care is\u00a0 the single most effective way to maintain health and wellness and that is why Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina is committed to providing customers with preventive health care options that are covered at 100% on every health [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,635],"tags":[152,98,636],"class_list":["post-4632","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bcbsnc-insurance","category-preventive-care-2","tag-blue-cross-blue-shield-of-nc","tag-preventive-care","tag-wellness-exams"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nchealthplans.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4632","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=4632"}],"version-history":[{"count":29,"href":"https:\/\/www.nchealthplans.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4632\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9333,"href":"https:\/\/www.nchealthplans.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4632\/revisions\/9333"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nchealthplans.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4632"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nchealthplans.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4632"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nchealthplans.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4632"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}