{"id":1423205,"date":"2025-06-30T22:05:29","date_gmt":"2025-07-01T03:05:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1423205"},"modified":"2025-07-03T03:14:15","modified_gmt":"2025-07-03T08:14:15","slug":"christus-health-bluecross-blueshield-extend-contract-due-per-state-rep-jay-dean","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1423205","title":{"rendered":"CHRISTUS Health, BlueCross BlueShield extend contract until Aug. 1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2017\/11\/Christus-Mother-Francis-150x150.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-666874\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2017\/11\/Christus-Mother-Francis-150x150.jpeg 150w, https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2017\/11\/Christus-Mother-Francis.jpeg 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/>TYLER &#8211; East Texas State Rep. Jay Dean of Longview said that BlueCross BlueShield of Texas and CHRISTUS Health have extended their current contract until Aug. 1, 2025. \u201cCHRISTUS and BlueCross BlueShield of Texas have extended their current contract to August 1 while they continue negotiating,\u201d Dean said. \u201cI\u2019ve been working with both parties to come to a reasonable conclusion to protect patients of East Texas!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Teacher Retirement System of Texas\u2019 ActiveCare <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bcbstx.com\/trsactivecare\/coverage\/christus\">BlueCross BlueShield website<\/a> confirmed that the contract has been extended until Aug. 1.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have a long and positive relationship with CHRISTUS Health, but you are our priority,\u201d the website said. \u201cWe want to reach an agreement that will continue to give you access to CHRISTUS Health doctors, facilities and hospitals at fair prices.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TYLER &#8211; East Texas State Rep. Jay Dean of Longview said that BlueCross BlueShield of Texas and CHRISTUS Health have extended their current contract until Aug. 1, 2025. \u201cCHRISTUS and BlueCross BlueShield of Texas have extended their current contract to August 1 while they continue negotiating,\u201d Dean said. \u201cI\u2019ve been working with both parties to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1423205\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">CHRISTUS Health, BlueCross BlueShield extend contract until Aug. 1<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":65,"featured_media":1423443,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2017\/11\/Christus-Mother-Francis-150x150.jpeg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1423205","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-09 02:48:45","action":"change-status","newStatus":"trash","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2017\/11\/Christus-Mother-Francis-150x150.jpeg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1423205","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/65"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1423205"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1423205\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1423732,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1423205\/revisions\/1423732"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1423443"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1423205"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1423205"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1423205"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}