Blue Cross Teaming Up With 11 Texas Institutions to Address Healthcare Costs

Blue Cross Teaming Up With 11 Texas Institutions to Address Healthcare Costs: Richardson-based Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Texas will be teaming up with 11 universities to address the root causes of high cost of health care. The research institutions and insurer will be working on projects that focus on behavioral health, vaccine adherence, and analyzing usage data to improve efficiency. The collaboration is part of Blue Cross' Affordability Cures initiative, and hopes to address care delivery, unequal distribution, and waste in the system. 'Failure to address access and affordability of health care has real consequences. We need to challenge the status quo by bringing transformative research and ideas to the table,' said Dr. Dan McCoy, president, BCBSTX via release. 'By collaborating with a diverse set of institutions and researchers who are embedded in and understand the communities we're serving, we can better identify and develop solutions that tackle high health care costs at its foundation.' The Texas-based universities and research focus areas include,