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10/28/2012
Brockton reaches sweeping deal with unions on health insurance
City councilors were rewarded on Thursday for putting their faith in Brockton employee unions to come to the bargaining table on health insurance.
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10/25/2012
Partners agrees to ‘global payments’ in new deal with insurer Harvard Pilgrim
Partners HealthCare System has struck a new four-year contract with insurer Harvard Pilgrim Health Care that both sides said will help control Massachusetts health care costs by putting Partners’ large hospitals and doctors practices on budgets and limiting future reimbursement increases to between 2 and 3 percent annually, roughly the rate of inflation.
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10/24/2012
Harvard Pilgrim Health Care is the nation’s #1 private health plan
Harvard Pilgrim Health Care is the nation’s #1 private health plan again on NCQA’s 2012-13 Health Insurance Ranking list Harvard Pilgrim is nation’s top-ranked plan for the ninth consecutive year
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10/19/2012
Here's How Stripping Down Health Care Reform Benefits to the Bare Bones Will Backfire and Drive Up Costs
If there’s a realm where the normal economic logic sometimes does not apply, it’s health insurance. And without understanding how the rules are different, policy makers in state capitals may be on the brink of making a major error by declining to include some kinds of health insurance plans on the insurance exchanges they’ll launch in 2014.
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10/15/2012
Mass. insurance plans again earn top rankings on member satisfaction, improvement processes
Health insurance plans in Massachusetts again earned top rankings in an analysis of member satisfaction, clinical quality, and improvement processes by the National Committee of Quality Assurance.
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