Foundation Collaborations

The Foundation partners with researchers in health plans, institutional associates, and other organizations to stimulate high quality research and generate healthcare advances relevant to the needs and concerns of the public. This partnership is specifically qualified to provide relevant data because the Foundation and our partners collaborate on multi-plan, product-varied studies which pool almost 45 million healthcare consumers. Some of the products reviewed utilize government business, such as Medicaid and Medicare. With this level of diversity of products and scope of research, the Foundation is uniquely positioned to provide unparalleled results. Listed below are some of our collaborating institutions in this visionary effort to obtain statistics that will advance and disseminate new knowledge in the public domain.

Agency for Heathcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) (http://www.ahrq.gov)

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) (http://www.cdc.gov)

Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) (http://www.cms.gov)

National Institutes of Health (NIH) (http://www.nih.gov)

The Blue Cross and Blue Shield Foundation on Healthcare is a 501(c)(3) not-for-profit organization that provides a multi-site forum to analyze and translate the latest medical research data into qualitative improvements in healthcare.