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Article: HARVARD VANGUARD FATE LINKED WITH HMO DOCTORS' GROUP WEIGHS ITS OPTIONS
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- January 12, 2000
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Among the nail-biting health care providers who treat Harvard
Pilgrim Health Care's million-plus subscribers, none have greater
cause for alarm than those at Harvard Vanguard Medical Associates,
who provide care for nearly one Greater Boston resident in every 10.
Ninety-three percent of Harvard Vanguard's 300,000 patients are
insured by Harvard Pilgrim, the giant Massachusetts health plan which
state officials took over last week to stave off financial collapse.
The ties between the two go back 30 years. Harvard Pilgrim grew
out of Harvard Community Health Plan, founded in 1969. Two years ago,
the Harvard Plan's 500 salaried, health center-based doctors and
staff morphed into Harvard ...