Blue Cross Blue Shield of Texas reached a $4.5 million settlement with the Texas Attorney General’s Office related to a decade-old acquisition dispute, the attorney general said Thursday.

Under the $4.5 million settlement, which will be distributed among three children’s hospitals and eight charity health care clinics throughout the state, all funds must directly benefit indigent patients.

An estimated $500,000 will go to the Dell Children’s Medical Center of Central Texas.

Attorney General Greg Abbott was expected to announce a larger award for Children’s Medical Center Dallas at 2 p.m.

“It’s actually been completed in a very amicable manner,” said Margaret Jarvis, spokeswoman for Blue Cross Blue Shield of Texas. “It brings to resolution an acquisition dispute that actually started more than a decade ago.”