Health insurer Cigna will offer individual policies on and off the Affordable Care Act marketplace in the Raleigh, N.C., area for coverage starting Jan. 1.
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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