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Partners, Blue Cross strike deal on rates

Reimbursements cut by nearly $250m in deal New contract would cover HMO patients

By Robert Weisman

 |  Globe Staff  

  October 06, 2011

A new pact between the state’s largest health insurer and its biggest hospital and doctors network could boost efforts to contain health care costs, both sides said yesterday.

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