{"id":4781,"date":"2014-10-03T12:28:36","date_gmt":"2014-10-03T16:28:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nchealthplans.com\/news\/?p=4781"},"modified":"2014-09-17T12:30:38","modified_gmt":"2014-09-17T16:30:38","slug":"the-essentials-of-health-care","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nchealthplans.com\/news\/2014\/10\/the-essentials-of-health-care\/","title":{"rendered":"The Essentials of Health Care"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nchealthplans.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/bigstockphoto_trust_4294608.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-2340\" alt=\"bigstockphoto_trust_4294608\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nchealthplans.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/bigstockphoto_trust_4294608-300x300.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nchealthplans.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/bigstockphoto_trust_4294608-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.nchealthplans.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/bigstockphoto_trust_4294608-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.nchealthplans.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/bigstockphoto_trust_4294608.jpg 900w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \><\/a>Webster&#8217;s Dictionary defines the word <strong>essential<\/strong> as &#8220;extremely important and necessary,&#8221; and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nchealthplans.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina<\/a> couldn&#8217;t agree more.\u00a0 Regardless of the coverage you choose, health care reform requires that qualified health plans include 10 essential health benefits that fall into the following categories that will help keep you and your family healthy and secure.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Ambulatory Services<\/li>\n<li>Emergency Services<\/li>\n<li>Hospitilization<\/li>\n<li>Maternity and Newborn Care<\/li>\n<li>Mental health and substance abuse services (including behavioral health)<\/li>\n<li>Prescription drugs<\/li>\n<li>Rehabilitative and habilitative services and devices<\/li>\n<li>Laboratory services<\/li>\n<li>Preventive\/wellness services and chronic disease management<\/li>\n<li>Pediatric services, including dental and vision<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>BCBSNC understands that your health care matters and that these essential services are extremely important and necessary to your overall wellness and peace of mind.\u00a0 With a variety of<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nchealthplans.com\/Documents\/2014\/2014%20BROCHURE%20-%20Under%2065.pdf\" target=\"_blank\"> health care policies<\/a> to meet your essential needs, Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina is committed to offering quality health care that more than covers the basics.\u00a0 To find a BCBSNC health plan you can trust with your essential care, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bcbsnc.com\/assets\/shopper\/public\/quote\/index.htm#\/?pnumber=P0038147\" target=\"_blank\">click here.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>For more information on health insurance coverage in North Carolina, please visit our website at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nchealthplans.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">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 Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina (BCBSNC). It would be our pleasure to help you navigate through the Health Care Reform changes in accordance with the new regulations of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nchealthplans.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Obamacare<\/a>. Call us for details.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Webster&#8217;s Dictionary defines the word essential as &#8220;extremely important and necessary,&#8221; and Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina couldn&#8217;t agree more.\u00a0 Regardless of the coverage you choose, health care reform requires that qualified health plans include 10 essential health benefits that fall into the following categories that will help keep you and your family [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[560,14,271],"tags":[641,415,596],"class_list":["post-4781","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-affordable-care-act-aca","category-bcbsnc-insurance","category-health-care-reform","tag-10-essential-health-benefits","tag-blue-cross-blue-shield-nc","tag-obamacare"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nchealthplans.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4781","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=4781"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.nchealthplans.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4781\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8058,"href":"https:\/\/www.nchealthplans.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4781\/revisions\/8058"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nchealthplans.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4781"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nchealthplans.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4781"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nchealthplans.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4781"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}