Harvard Pilgrim Health Care

Up until January 1st of 2026, Massachusetts had the best utilization and coverage for GLP-1 receptor agonists.

If we look at employer-sponsored insurance, here in Massachusetts, the big four are Mass General Brigham, Harvard Pilgrim, Tufts, and Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts or New England.

All of these insurers were covering GLP-1s for patients with overweight and obesity.

but as of January 1st, pulled back coverage for this patient population.

And part of it is, you know, Minogue has cast himself as trying to occupy the Charlie Baker lane.

You know, he was a, you know, ran Harvard Pilgrim and ran as a moderate Republican, and Minogue is hoping to capture that lane, but there's just one problem.

You know, who has that lane? Maura Healey.

Yes, she does.

Sometimes they don't do it for a longer than a year.

And then it gets into a process with Harvard Pilgrim of whether they're going to pay out that claim.

It's about the contract between the provider and Harvard Pilgrim.

So to make this easy for everybody, I just told everybody, you really can't get out of the deficit world or run-out world for probably an entire fiscal year to pass.

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