Harvard Pilgrim Health Care is a

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health services company based in

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serving the

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region of the

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. On August 14, 2019, the boards of Harvard Pilgrim Health Care and

Tufts Health Plan Tufts Health Plan was a Massachusetts-based non-profit health insurance company under Tufts Associated Health Plans, Inc. with headquarters in Watertown, Massachusetts. It completed a merger with Harvard Pilgrim Health Care on January 1, 2021, mak ...

announced plans for the two insurers to

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their organizations into a new company. The new company serves 2.4 million members in Massachusetts,

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, and

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. The merger completed on January 1, 2021, making the then unnamed company the second largest health insurer in Massachusetts. On June 15, 2021, the new name of the parent company was announced as Point32Health, named for the 32 points on a compass.

Overview

Harvard Pilgrim Health Care was formed in 1994 from the merger of the Harvard Community Health Plan (HCHP) and the Pilgrim Health Plan. Harvard Community Health Plan had been founded in 1969. One of its founders was

Maurice Lazarus Maurice "Mogie" Lazarus (June 27, 1915 – May 4, 2004) was an American retailing executive who served as president of Filene's and founded Harvard Pilgrim Health Care. Biography Lazarus was born to a American Jews, Jewish family on June 27, 1915 ...

. Harvard Pilgrim is home to the

Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Institute Harvard University is a private Ivy League research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Founded in 1636 as Harvard College and named for its first benefactor, the Puritan clergyman John Harvard, it is the oldest institution of higher l ...

, a collaboration with

Harvard Medical School Harvard Medical School (HMS) is the graduate medical school of Harvard University and is located in the Longwood Medical Area of Boston, Massachusetts. Founded in 1782, HMS is one of the oldest medical schools in the United States and is consi ...

. As Harvard Medical School’s Department of Population Medicine, the Institute is the only appointing department of a U.S. medical school housed within a health plan. Funded primarily through external government and private sources, it provides information to the health care system on issues affecting population health and health care delivery.

Awards and recognition

Boston Business Journal The ''Boston Business Journal'' is a weekly, business-oriented newspaper published in Boston, Massachusetts. It is published by the American City Business Journals. The newspaper was founded by Robert Bergenheim and launched its first issue on ...

- a Best Place to Work (2003 - 2017) * Boston Business Journal - a Top Corporate Philanthropist (2007 - 2015) *

The Boston Globe ''The Boston Globe'' is an American daily newspaper founded and based in Boston, Massachusetts. The newspaper has won a total of 27 Pulitzer Prizes, and has a total circulation of close to 300,000 print and digital subscribers. ''The Boston Glob ...

- a Top Place to Work (2009 - 2015) *

Human Rights Campaign The Human Rights Campaign (HRC) is an American LGBTQ advocacy group. It is the largest LGBTQ political lobbying organization within the United States. Based in Washington, D.C., the organization focuses on protecting and expanding rights for LGB ...

- a Best Place to Work (2013 - 2016)

Key people

Charlie Baker Charles Duane Baker Jr. (born November 13, 1956) is an American politician and businessman serving as the 72nd governor of Massachusetts since 2015. A member of the Republican Party, Baker was a cabinet official under two governors of Massach ...

, former CEO and

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