Partners HealthCare lost money last year for the first time in 15 years. The Boston Globe covered the story and quoted me. Here’s what I had to say:

“Partners expected that owning Neighborhood Health Plan would give them a low-cost way to gain experience as a health plan,” said David E. Williams, president of Health Business Group, a Boston consulting firm. “Instead what they have found is that running a health plan for Medicaid patients is a difficult challenge and not an easy way to make money.”

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By healthcare business consultant David E. Williams, president of Health Business Group.

December 15, 2014