Subject: Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Texas Collaborates With Five Blue
Plans to Increase Transparency, Expand Access to Health Care Cost
Information
Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Texas Collaborates With Five Blue Plans to
Increase Transparency, Expand Access to Health Care Cost Information
Blue plans in Florida, Illinois, New Mexico, Oklahoma and Texas to launch
online Care Comparison tool for members; Care Comparison selected as
standard methodology for Blue Plans.
RICHARDSON, Texas, July 30 /PRNewswire/ — Blue Cross and Blue Shield of
Texas (BCBSTX) joined other Blue Plans today to announce plans to
collaborate to provide access to an online, consumer-friendly health care
cost information tool, developed by WellPoint, which is called “Care
Comparison.” With expansion of this easy-to-access, online tool, more than
48 million American consumers will have access to valuable cost information
which will help plan members increase their knowledge as consumers of health
care, and identify ways to spend their health care dollars more wisely.
“Blue Cross collaborated with WellPoint, Inc. (NYSE:WLP) (the nation’s
largest health benefits company by medical membership), Blue Cross Blue
Shield of Florida and Health Care Service Corporation (HCSC operates Blue
Cross and Blue Shield plans in Illinois, New Mexico, Oklahoma and Texas), to
provide access to this cost transparency tool,” says Darren Rodgers,
president, Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Texas. “We are pleased to have
reached our goal of creating opportunities for an even greater number of
members to have easy access to clear, concise health cost information in
major cities nationwide, which can ultimately help drive down health care
costs through information and awareness.”
The Care Comparison online tool will provide the following information: