NCBCH's Strategic Focus Areas:
Through collaboration with employers and other key healthcare stakeholders, NCBCH advances initiatives to improve healthcare quality, affordability, access and value for employers, employees, families and consumers across North Carolina.
- High-Cost Claims & Catastrophic Care – Helping employers better prevent, identify, and manage catastrophic healthcare spending through data-driven strategies and innovative benefit design, with current emphasis on specialty pharmaceuticals, advanced therapies, oncology, and other emerging drivers of healthcare cost.
- Cancer Prevention, Screening and Care – Supporting employers throughout the cancer journey, from prevention and early detection through treatment and survivorship. Current initiatives include expanding routine screenings and vaccinations while improving access to high-quality, evidence-based oncology care.
- Prescription Drug Affordability – Advancing pharmacy benefit transparency and employer strategies to address the rapidly growing costs of specialty pharmaceuticals, including GLP-1 therapies, HIV medications, cell and gene therapies, and other high-cost prescription drugs.
- Primary Care Transformation – Promoting advanced primary care models that improve quality, access, patient experience, and total cost of care through employer-centered benefit design and innovative delivery models.
- Rural Health & Social Determinants of Health – Addressing barriers to healthcare access and outcomes in rural and underserved communities, including the social and economic factors that influence health and wellbeing.
- Behavioral Health – Promoting practical, evidence-based solutions that improve access to high-quality behavioral healthcare and address its growing impact on employers, employees and families.
- Healthcare Transparency & Value-Based Purchasing – Advancing hospital price transparency, healthcare quality measurement, and value-based purchasing strategies that enable employers to make more informed healthcare purchasing decisions.
- Workplace Wellbeing & Organizational Health – Advancing employee wellbeing through leadership, culture, and evidence-based workplace practices, including our annual North Carolina Culture of Wellbeing Award.
- Healthcare Innovation & Emerging Technologies – Evaluating and promoting innovative healthcare delivery models, digital health solutions, and emerging technologies that improve quality, patient experience, and affordability.
NCBCH’s areas of focus evolve as employer healthcare challenges and opportunities change. We work with our employer members and other healthcare stakeholders to identify emerging priorities, share effective strategies and develop collaborative approaches to issues affecting healthcare across North Carolina.