Category: Behavioral Health
Substance Use is Driving Children into Foster Care. Here’s What We Can Do About It.
Throughout the pandemic, substance use has risen sharply, and record numbers of opioid deaths have left even more families destabilized and more children vulnerable...
Industry Perspectives, Behavioral Health, Thought Leadership
Adoptive Parents Can Also Experience the “Baby Blues” – Here’s Why That Matters
In health care, we often talk about postpartum depression. But few people realize that adoptive parents can also experience “the baby blues,” or post-placement depression. See how Blue Cross...
Industry Perspectives, Behavioral Health, Thought Leadership
Conversations with a Compassion Warrior: A social worker on LGBTQ+ mental health
This Pride Month, social worker Hayden Dawes talks LGTBQ+ mental health, stigma, and what it means to be a compassion warrior...
Why is it so hard to get mental health care and support?
At Blue Cross NC, our behavioral health team is committed to the vision that behavioral health services should be accessible, high-quality, and stigma-free. Here's how we plan to get...
Industry Perspectives, Behavioral Health, Transforming Healthcare
How Blue Cross NC is Reshaping Behavioral Health Care in NC
Blue Cross NC is in its second year of a long-term strategy to improve behavioral health access, quality and efficiency by focusing on whole-person care...
5 min read | Industry Perspectives, Behavioral Health
Three Things COVID-19 Has Confirmed About Health Care
The COVID-19 crisis is teaching us a lot about our health care system, and we will emerge from this crisis wiser for the experience. Blue Cross NC's COO explains...
5 min read | Industry Perspectives, Behavioral Health, Drivers of Health, Thought Leadership, Transforming Healthcare
Expanding Access to Treatment for Substance Use Disorders in North Carolina
Blue Cross NC is committed to combating the substance use disorder crisis in our state through community partners, new solutions and industry-leading approaches...
4 min read | Industry Perspectives, Behavioral Health, Transforming Healthcare
Behavioral health care is in crisis – but payers have the opportunity to shape a better future.
Payment reform can drive the development of a behavioral health system that is flexible and responsive, especially during times of higher demand. ..
5 min read | Industry Perspectives, Behavioral Health, Thought Leadership, Transforming Healthcare
On Opioids, North Carolina Is Making Progress
The opioid problem won’t be solved overnight. But that doesn’t mean we can’t make significant progress in the short term here in North Carolina. A research report called...
Changes to our Opioid Policies
Every day, opioid addiction destroys lives and tears apart families in North Carolina. It is a public health emergency that Blue Cross NC is committed to addressing. We’re announcing...
