By Bruce Auerbach, MD Past President, Massachusetts Medical Society In 2008, as I began my one-year term as president of the Massachusetts Medical Society, the MMS and five physicians filed suit against the Massachusetts Group Insurance Commission (GIC), and two health insurers, Tufts Health Plan and Unicare, over the state program that rates (or “tiers”) [...]

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Massachusetts physicians should watch their mail next month for information from the six health plans that participate in the Group Insurance Commission. We expect that the plans will release next year’s individual tier designations early in January. Review these mailings right away. They will include general information about your profile and the tiers into which [...]

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