Some people with long memories may recall that Harvard Pilgrim dedicated its 2004 annual report to explaining how we were going to “Eat At Our Own Restaurant” by changing the way we offered and managed our health plan benefits AS AN EMPLOYER to reduce the increase in our health care costs over time. It’s now […]

For the past few years, Harvard Pilgrim has published an annual report that focuses on some issue — or set of issues — in health care. Most of the time, the report is a little late — usually because I’ve been slow to get around to writing about something that gets past the plan’s PR […]

A few weeks ago, the federal government’s Government Accountability Office (GAO) issued a report on the rapid rise in the cost and use of high-end radiology services (CT Scans, PET Scans, MRIs and the like). In a nutshell, the report said three things: first, the use and cost of imaging services to Medicare beneficiaries went up dramatically […]