Ten years ago, the term “medical tourism” referred to non-U.S. citizens seeking health care in the United States, because the health care systems in their own countries either couldn’t give them what they needed in a timely way, or couldn’t give it to them at all.

What a difference a decade makes. Today, more often than […]

Boston Globe reporter Jeff Krasner does a great job covering business issues for the Globe and was kind enough to attend the seventh — and most recent — public meeting of the Coalition for Affordable Health Care. The Coalition is a group of Massachusetts businesses and health plans (including Harvard Pilgrim) who’ve joined together to […]

I got a letter the other day from a friend of mine who happens to be a Harvard Pilgrim member. She was annoyed by the size of the bill she received from a Boston teaching hospital for a colonoscopy. She said the amount due — both the total and the amount she had to pay […]