title: Harvard Pilgrim Health Care--leading the competition and growing.
abstract: New England's largest HMO wants to be even bigger. The product of a 1995 merger, Harvard Pilgrim is seeking ways to reduce per-member-per-month costs, creating new health plans with greater choice of providers, changing physician relationships from staff-model to group practice and looking at other merger opportunities.
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Scott
mesh_terms: D003363:Cost Control; D004465:Economic Competition; D006273:Health Facility Merger / Q000191:economics / Q000639:trends; D006279:Health Maintenance Organizations / Q000191:economics* / Q000458:organization & administration / Q000639:trends; D008389:Marketing of Health Services; D017146:Models, Organizational; D009511:New England