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BCBSTX Connect Team
- July 3, 2019
- In the Texas Community
- Media Gallery
Teenager Makes Great Strides Through Medicaid Therapies

Over the course of his 18-year life, Christopher Loe has experienced more surgeries than birthdays. As a kid, “Critter” couldn’t enjoy musical productions or ice capades, like most kids his age. The reverb in his ears made loud...
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BCBSTX Connect Team
- July 2, 2019
- In the Texas Community
- Media Gallery
Volunteers Build a Wheelchair Ramp for Elderly Couple

No one should ever have to risk injury just to enter their own home. Imagine not being sure if you have the strength and balance to make it safely up the stairs into your own home. Simple acts we take for granted every day, like checking the mail...
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BCBSTX Connect Team
- June 3, 2019
- In the Texas Community
- Blogs
What happens when an urgent care center becomes a freestanding ER?

This guest blog is presented by Shara McClure, Divisional Senior Vice President of Texas Health Care Delivery for Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Texas. Can you tell the difference between the facilities in the above photo? You may have noticed...
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BCBSTX Connect Team
- May 1, 2019
- In the Texas Community
- Blogs
Guest Blog: Casey's Circle

Casey’s Circle is an Austin-based nonprofit organization dedicated to helping families of children with special needs find ways for their kids to be kids first – patients later. Children with special needs are often treated as a di.....
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BCBSTX Connect Team
- April 3, 2019
- In the Texas Community
- Blogs
There is a mental health care crisis in Texas

This blog is presented by Dr. Paul Hain, Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Texas Chief Medical Officer. Mental health issues seem to be in the news on an almost daily basis across the nation and the Lone Star State. Mental health has even gained the...
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BCBSTX Connect Team
- March 15, 2019
- In the Texas Community
- Blogs
Do You Know the Price of Your Health Care?

You wouldn’t book an expensive vacation or buy a new car without knowing how much it cost ahead of time. So why are Texans expected to receive health care services without knowing how much they cost upfront?
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BCBSTX Connect Team
- March 12, 2019
- In the Texas Community
- Blogs
Kidney Disease Detection Saves Lives—and Money

Did you know one in seven adults has some form of chronic kidney disease? Learn why early detection is the key to reducing the impact of this condition.
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BCBSTX Connect Team
- February 13, 2019
- In the Texas Community
- Media Gallery
Mable Milliet: The Journey of a Lifelong BCBSTX Member

Mable Milliet, 96, has had BCBSTX health care coverage for 77 consecutive years. A self-proclaimed "life" member, she received her benefits through the Blue Cross Blue Shield Federal Employee Program (FEP). In 2019, BCBSTX is celebrating...
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BCBSTX Connect Team
- February 4, 2019
- In the Texas Community
- Blogs
On the Road to Bridging the Gap in Kidney Care

BCBSTX is partnering with the National Kidney Foundation, one of our Healthy Kids, Healthy Families® (HKHF) grant awardees, throughout the month of February to raise awareness of chronic kidney disease.
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BCBSTX Connect Team
- January 28, 2019
- In the Texas Community
- Media Gallery
Dr. Vivian Ho Honored With Patient Protection Award

The new award is given to people with the same spirit and commitment to their community’s health as Blue Cross’ founding father Justin F. Kimball. Dr. Ho, a nationally-renowned health care researcher and economist, continues that innovative...
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BCBSTX Connect Team
- January 28, 2019
- In the Texas Community
- Media Gallery
Collaborating to Solve the Rural Health Care Crisis In Texas

Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Texas (BCBSTX) and Texas A&M University Health Science Center (TAMHSC) recently announced a new project to support collaborative care and healthy communities. The project will help identify and implement solutions...
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BCBSTX Connect Team
- January 28, 2019
- In the Texas Community
- Media Gallery
Convenient Immunizations for Texas Children, Expectant Mothers and Grandparents

Through mobile community outreach, the Caring Foundation of Texas and its Care Van Program works to further improve barriers to health access for uninsured and medically underserved Texas children and provide other targeted health services to help...
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BCBSTX Connect Team
- January 28, 2019
- In the Texas Community
- Media Gallery
2018 Employee Volunteer of the Year: Adam Quintanilla

Every year we select an employee who best represents our company's commitment to community. In 2018, we chose Adam Quintanilla, a customer service advocate in our Abilene office. Adam has inspired his colleagues through his volunteer work with...
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BCBSTX Connect Team
- December 10, 2018
- In the Texas Community
- Blogs
Filling the Weekend Food Gap: Backpack Buddy Program

BCBSTX recently announced a partnership with Feeding America®, the nation’s largest hunger-relief organization, to address the complex and often overlapping challenges that increase families’ risk of food insecurity. Under this initiative, we are...
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BCBSTX Connect Team
- December 10, 2018
- In the Texas Community
- Blogs
MHP Salud Helps Rio Grande Valley Residents Take a Stand Against Chronic Kidney Disease

BCBSTX is partnering with the national nonprofit, MHP Salud, one of our Healthy Kids, Healthy Families® (HKHF) grant awardees, throughout the month of December to raise awareness for the nonprofit’s mission of empowering underserved Latino communities...
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