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Harvard Pilgrim drops compound drug coverage
Harvard Pilgrim plans to stop covering specialty medications known as compounded drugs because it says the costs and safety concerns pose too great a risk.
Harvard Pilgrim to face big competition with expansion plans
Harvard Pilgrim is planning to expand its business to the Connecticut health insurance market, where it would be competing against some big insurers, including Aetna and Cigna.
Harvard Pilgrim reaches global payment deal with Partners HealthCare
Harvard Pilgrim Health Care reached a new deal with Partners HealthCare System for a new global payment arrangement that gives providers a fixed amount of money each year to care for patients.
Harvard Pilgrim excludes high-priced hospitals in new limited network
Harvard Pilgrim has created a new limited network of moderately priced providers that reduces insurance costs by 10 percent. The insurer's decision is the latest move by the Massachusetts healthcare
Insurers rake in earnings at ten times 2010 profits
The four largest health insurers in Massachusetts fared extremely well in 2011, as fewer people sought medical care and as insurers renegotiated provider contracts, which helped them stifle
Harvard Pilgrim pays members to use cheaper treatments
Massachusetts-based Harvard Pilgrim has started paying patients $10 to $75 each time they get medical tests at a lower cost provider. Under Harvard Pilgrim's SaveOn program, when members get
Massachusetts poised to bar nonprofit board payments
Nonprofit health insurers in Massachusetts may soon be barred from providing compensation for their board of directors. Attorney General Martha Coakley already filed a bill to end nonprofit directors
Tufts, Harvard Pilgrim to keep paying directors
Tufts Health Plan and Harvard Pilgrim will keep paying their board of directors five-figure annual fees despite objections from the Massachusetts attorney general and an inquiry into directors'
Harvard Pilgrim, Tufts consider merger to compete against BCBS
Harvard Pilgrim and Tufts Health Plan--the second and third largest health plans in Massachusetts, respectively--are considering a merger to combine operations and make them a stronger competitor to
