Source: Rose Hoban, NORTH CAROLINA, 10/28/21


Gov. Roy Cooper signed a bill into law last month that’s been touted as a way to create insurance plans that could bring costs down for small businesses that want to give their employees a health care benefit they otherwise might not have been able to afford.  The new law allows for employers to offer employees access to “exclusive provider organizations,” or EPOs, which are insurance plans that limit a person’s choice of health care providers to a constrained selection of doctors and hospitals. 

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