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Clipboard: Harvard Pilgrim plans lower-cost network

Harvard Pilgrim Health Care plans to begin offering customers a lower-cost health plan that excludes Partners HealthCare and other more costly hospitals, Rob Weisman reported in yesterday’s Globe. The network of teaching and community hospitals, includ... »

Secretary JudyAnn Bigby and others from Mass. join national panel on physician payment

The Society of General Internal Medicine, led by Dr. Harry Selker, director of the clinical research program at Tufts Medical Center and a professor at Tufts medical school, has created a panel of doctors and other industry experts to examine changes i... »

Tufts Medical Center designated as ‘level one’ trauma center

State health officials have designated Tufts Medical Center a “level one’’ trauma center, an elite designation that could bring more prestige and potentially more patients to the Boston teaching hospital. Tufts won approval despite opposition from othe... »

Tufts researchers leave to launch Brown University center on evidence-based medicine

Three prominent researchers at Tufts Medical Center who specialize in analysis of medical research will leave this year to start a new center focused on evidence-based medicine at Brown University. The researchers lead the evidence-based practice cente... »

Tufts Medical Center wants top trauma designation, but competitors seek delay

Tufts Medical Center is seeking to become a “level one’’ trauma center, an elite designation that would bring more prestige and potentially more patients to the Boston teaching hospital. But the surgery chiefs at four of Tufts’ competitors are question... »

Tufts Medical Center and Blue Cross Blue Shield agree on a new contract

Tufts Medical Center and its physicians have reached a new three-year agreement with Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts, the two sides said this morning. The deal, in which Blue Cross agreed to give Tufts and the doctors a 3 percent annual increas... »

Blue Cross Blue Shield and Tufts Medical Center back talking

Tufts Medical Center and Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts agreed tonight to continue contract talks with the help of an unnamed third-party. In a joint statement, the hospital and insurer said they “are committed to reaching agreement on a new c... »

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