I try not to toot the Harvard Pilgrim horn too much in these postings, but I can’t let the fact go by that we have been recognized for the fifth year in a row by U.S. News & World Report and the National Committee on Quality Assurance (NCQA) as the highest rated commercial health plan in the country. […]

This will be my final post as CEO of Harvard Pilgrim Health Care, but faithful readers of this blog need not worry about its future.  Interim CEO Bruce Bullen - who’s been the COO of Harvard Pilgrim for the past 10 years and a regular contributor to other health care blogs - will pick up the ball in my […]

For the past four years, the National Committee for Quality Assurance (NCQA) has teamed with U.S.News & World Report to prepare a national ranking on health plans using member satisfaction and clinical effectiveness information compiled by NCQA to build individual scorecards for each participating carrier.  This is the equivalent of the U.S.News forays into colleges, hospitals, and other elite […]