The health plans will network with Chapel Hill, N.C.-based UNC Health Care, clinically integrated network UNC Health Alliance and UNC primary care physicians and specialists in the service area. Network hospitals include Raleigh-based REX Healthcare, Smithfield, N.C.-based Johnston Health, Rocky Mount, N.C.-based Nash Health Care and Siler City, N.C.-based Chatham Hospital.
Bloomfield, Conn.-based Cigna will sell the plans in five North Carolina counties — Chatham, Johnston, Nash, Orange and Wake.
Ninety percent of North Carolina counties are projected to only have one insurer — Blue Cross and Blue Shield of North Carolina — offering ACA individual plans. The other 10 percent, including the state’s second most populous county, Wake, are projected to have two insurers offering individual plans on the exchange — Cigna and BCBS of North Carolina.
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