Harvard Pilgrim Health Care is a non-profit health services company based in Canton, Massachusetts serving the New England region of the United States.
On August 14, 2019, the boards of Harvard Pilgrim Health Care and Tufts Health Plan announced plans for the two insurers to merge their organizations into a new company.
The new company serves 2.4 million members in Massachusetts, Maine, Connecticut, New Hampshire, and Rhode Island.
[1] The merger completed on January 1, 2021, making the then unnamed company the second largest health insurer in Massachusetts.
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.