Newsletters

The State Health Plan provides four different newsletters for members.

SmartNews!

SmartNews! provides state-of-art health and wellness information, recipes and pertinent State Health Plan updates. SmartNews! is distributed to eligible* members three times per year.

Pharmacy Wise

Pharmacy Wise is the State Health Plan’s annual newsletter that focuses on member’s prescription benefits. It is distributed at the beginning of each year.

HBR Update/HBR Alert

HBR Update
is distributed at the beginning of each month to health benefit representatives. HBR Update contains important benefit information, pharmacy news and health and wellness tips.

HBR Alert is distributed as needed to health benefit representatives to provide important, time-sensitive information regarding the health and pharmacy benefits of State Health Plan members.

Wellness Works

Wellness Works is a bi-monthly, electronic publication for worksite wellness committees. It contains resources, success stories and information to support and enhance the work of wellness committees.

*Members eligible for NC HealthSmart Services are members whose primary health insurance is through the NC State Health Plan, and are not on COBRA.