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Harvard Pilgrim cuts health premium rate increase
01-31-2012Ten days after state regulators approved Harvard Pilgrim Health Care’s request for premium increases of 3.8 percent for the period starting April 1, the Wellesley-based insurer said yesterday it has effectively slashed its rate increase in half.
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Cost-controlled health coverage gaining ground
01-30-2012In just three years, a new way of paying for medical care has spread rapidly across Massachusetts, and now more than 1.2 million people are covered by plans that put providers on a budget in an effort to restrain health spending.
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Children’s, Blue Cross deal curbs payments
01-24-2012Children’s Hospital Boston has agreed to a three-year contract with Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts
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Insurers hold back on rate increases
01-21-2012State regulators have approved premium increases averaging 2.3 percent for health insurance covering hundreds of thousands of residents, the most modest hikes in at least a decade and a sign that years of efforts to control costs may be working.
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Health insurers slow rise in fees
12-26-2011Massachusetts insurers, taking a tougher line in bargaining with health care providers under pressure from financially strained customers and government regulators, have held payment increases to the lowest level in years.
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The Blue Cross-Tufts Medical Fight: Who Wins?
12-15-2011These things keep happening because, like it or not, our state’s hospital payment system is designed to ensure that these events occur. And the likely winner? Governor Deval Patrick.
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New Contract Agreement Reached between Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts, Tufts Medical Center and New England Quality Care Alliance
12-08-2011BCBSMA Members Can Continue to Seek Care at Tufts Medical Center and from its Community Physician Network
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Steward Health Care lures away Compass Medical doctors from Partners HealthCare
12-08-2011Escalating its competition with other Boston-area hospital chains, for-profit company Steward Health Care System has lured away another major doctors group from a rival, this time grabbing a large South Shore practice from Partners HealthCare.
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Fallon Community Health Plan to distribute more than $150,000 to hunger relief programs
11-30-2011Fallon Community Health Plan to distribute more than $150,000 to hunger relief programs Worcester, Mass., November 14, 2011—Fallon Community Health Plan (FCHP) today announced it will distribute more than $150,000 to dozens of food pantries and hunger relief programs throughout …
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Town Hall Discussion regarding Tufts Medical Center/New England Quality Care Alliance (NEQCA) & BCBSMA
11-29-2011Today we participated in a Town Hall discussion by Tufts Medical Center/New England Quality Care Alliance (NEQCA) regarding their negotiations with BCBSMA………..talked about how these negotiations could impact BCBSMA HMO customers who are patients or use these medical facilities
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