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NewsSteward woos docs with potential kickbacks, Beth Israel claims
Furthering its reach in Massachusetts, hospital operator Steward Health Care System has proposed a sweetheart deal to 150 doctors affiliated with the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center's physician Read more...
Partners HealthCare enters global payment system to save $240M
Partners HealthCare has reached a deal with Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts that will reduce payments by $240 million over three years, Massachusetts' largest hospital and physician network Read more...
Massachusetts Blues reconsider pay for directors
Under pressure from state Attorney General Martha Coakley, Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts said it will suspend payments to its board of directors and may also change its legal structure, Read more...
Insurer pressures providers to drop fee-for-service model
The CEO of Massachusetts' largest health insurer is pressuring hospitals and doctors to shrink healthcare costs. Andrew Dreyfus, CEO of Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts, has said that Read more...
Health insurers sue Massachusetts over 'premium rate caps'
Health insurance companies in Massachusetts are fighting back after the state's insurance commissioner last week rejected 235 of 274 proposed rate hikes, effectively implementing a premium rate cap. Read more...
Patients buy short-term health insurance to 'trick' the system, health plan execs say
Despite Massachusetts' efforts to better spread health insurance costs among its population with an individual mandate, health plan data suggests that 2006 legislation has been severely undermined by Read more...
Mass., Blue Cross CEO resigns after company loses $150M in 2009
On the heels of Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts posting a $149 million loss for 2009, CEO Cleve Killingsworth resigned from the insurer on Monday. While Blue Cross went on record as saying Read more...
MA Blues look inward to save money
Faced with the harsh reality that the economy isn't going to heal anytime soon--and that health costs aren't about to drop very much---Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts is looking inward, Read more...
| Press ReleasesChildren’s Hospital Boston Joins the Alternative Quality ContractHospital and physicians agree to rate freeze for 2012 BOSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts (BCBSMA), Children’s Hospital Boston, Children’s Physicians’ Organization and Read more >> New Year’s Resolution SolutionsBlue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts has the tools to keep you on target BOSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- It’s no surprise that New Year’s resolutions quickly get kicked to the curb after the holidays. Read more >> New Contract Agreement Reached between Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts, Tufts Medical Center and New England QualiBCBSMA Members Can Continue to Seek Care at Tufts Medical Center and from its Community Physician Network BOSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts (BCBSMA), Tufts Medical Read more >> Harvard Medical School Researchers Find Alternative Quality Contract Lowers Spending and Improves Patient CareBOSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- A just-released study by a team of researchers at the Harvard Medical School finds that a new global payment model being implemented by Blue Cross Blue Shield of Read more >> Lowell Physician Hospital Organization Goes Live With MedVentiveLowell PHO Implements MedVentive’s Award-Winning Business and Clinical Intelligence Platform to Manage the New Era of Risk Contracts WALTHAM, Mass. & LOWELL, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Lowell Read more >> |
