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Harvard Pilgrim set to launch a lower cost network

Harvard Pilgrim teams with 50 hospitals, 16,500 doctors; Direct challenge to Partners, other top dollar providers

By Robert Weisman

 |  Globe Staff  

  March 18, 2012

Harvard Pilgrim Health Care is teaming up with more than 50 hospitals and 16,500 doctors across the state to offer Massachusetts employers and their workers a 10 percent savings on health insurance by forming what they call a “focused network’’ of medical care groups that excludes Partners HealthCare System Inc. and other high-priced providers. While the focused network limits where patients can receive care, it boasts a broad coalition of more moderately priced Boston teaching hospitals, regional providers, and community hospitals.

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