Expertise

• Health Insurance
• Pediatric medicine  
• Government relations

About Paul

Dr. Paul D. Hain is the Market President for North Texas at Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Texas (BCBSTX). In this role, he works with sales and account management, network, policy development, government and community relations as well as internal and external communications to support the company’s interactions in the large and dynamic business community of the Dallas-Fort Worth area and throughout North Texas.

Prior to BCBSTX, Dr. Hain was Vice President and Medical Director of Population Health and Network Development at Children’s Medical Center of Dallas and Associate Professor of Pediatrics at UT Southwestern Medical Center. Before moving to Dallas, Dr. Hain was the Associate Chief of Staff and Medical Director for Quality at Vanderbilt Children’s Hospital, where he was the founder of the Pediatric Hospitalist Program. He has completed terms on both the American Academy of Pediatrics Executive Committee for the Section of Hospital Medicine and the State Medicaid Managed Care Advisory Committee.

Academically, Dr. Hain has published in multiple journals and lectured nationally concerning the varied topics of quality improvement, risk management, readmissions, patient throughput, the use of the APR-DRG system, and dashboard use in hospital medicine.

Dr. Hain received his MD from the Vanderbilt School of Medicine, and he completed his pediatrics residency at Vanderbilt Children’s Hospital. Prior to that, Dr. Hain received his BS in Engineering from Rice University, and subsequently worked as a corrosion engineer in Alaska.