Is Tufts Health Plan an insurance carrier?

Tufts Health Plan offers health insurance plans for employers of all sizes in Massachusetts and Rhode Island. Our national CareLink product, in collaboration with Cigna, provides coverage for multi-state employers.

Is Tufts Health Plan insurance?

Tufts Health Plan is one of the nation's most highly rated nonprofit health insurance companies, known for delivering high-quality health care and an outstanding member experience. We offer a broad range of health care plans and coverage options to individuals and employer groups in the region and nationally.

What is the company name for Tufts insurance?

On January 26, 2021, Tufts Health Plan announced the completion of their merger with Harvard Pilgrim Health Care.

Is Tufts Health together Medicaid or Medicare?

Our Tufts Health Together plan provides high-quality MassHealth coverage for individuals and is free or low cost to low-income families enrolled in the state's Medicaid plan.

Is Tufts insurance Medicare?

With a Medicare plan from Tufts Health Plan, you'll continue to get the excellent care, service, and value you've come to expect. That's why 97% of our Medicare plan members stay with us year after year.

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Is Tufts insurance nationwide?

Members seeking health care services in all other states can use providers within the Cigna PPO network at an in-network cost share. Did you know? Our national coverage extends from coast to coast, providing members with better, seamless nationwide access to Tufts Health Plan and Cigna PPO* network providers.

What type of plan is Tufts together?

We have two accountable care organization (ACO) plans and one traditional MassHealth plan called a managed care organization (MCO). Click on the name of your plan to get the most up-to-date information. Check your ID card for your plan name.

What happened to Tufts Health Plan?

Tufts Health Plan and Harvard Pilgrim Health Care are now part of one combined organization. For the time being, however, Tufts and Harvard Pilgrim will continue to operate as separate companies and keep their current respective company names. A new name for the combined company is expected in the coming months.

Where does Tufts Health Plan cover?

Our full network includes more than 51,000 health care professionals and 110 hospitals across all of Massachusetts, Rhode Island and New Hampshire. The network also extends into parts of Maine, Vermont, New York and Connecticut.

Is Tufts Health together the same as Tufts Health Plan?

Tufts Health Together is our MassHealth plan. Tufts Health Plan works closely with two health care providers to offer accountable care organization plans (ACOs). Cambridge Health Alliance (CHA) and UMass Memorial Health. We also offer a managed care organization plan (MCO).

Is Tufts Health Plan part of UnitedHealthcare?

As you may know, Tufts Health Freedom Plan was sold to UnitedHealthcare effective Jan. 1, 2021, and was renamed UnitedHealthcare Freedom Health Plan. Tufts Health Freedom Plan provided administrative support during a transition period that ended on June 30, 2022.

Is Tufts Health Plan the same as MassHealth?

With Tufts Health Together, our MassHealth plan, you get all the benefits of MassHealth, including: Visits to doctors and specialists. Prescription drugs for kids ($1 to $3.65* copayment for ages 21 and over)

Did Tufts Health Plan change their name?

Starting January 1, 2024, our Tufts Health Unify (Medicare-Medicaid) plan will be renamed Tufts Health One Care (Medicare-Medicaid) plan. We're proud to be one of the original One Care health plans in Massachusetts, and we want our name to reflect it!

Is Tufts Health Care good?

A nonprofit organization founded in 1979, Tufts Health Plan is nationally recognized for its commitment to providing innovative, high-quality health care coverage.

Is Tufts Health Plan a PPO or HMO?

At Tufts Health Plan, we have a team of Medicare Experts available to answer all your Medicare questions and help you find the plan that's right for you. Tufts Health Plan offers several HMO plans and an Access PPO plan.

Is Tufts a private?

Tufts University is a private institution that was founded in 1852. It has a total undergraduate enrollment of 6,815 (fall 2022), and the campus size is 150 acres. It utilizes a semester-based academic calendar.

Is Tufts Health Plan for profit?

Tufts Health Plan is—and always has been—a nonprofit company. We're also a local company, serving members in the same places where our employees live and work. Those two facts are essential to who we are and how we serve our members.

Is Tufts Health Plan only in Massachusetts?

CareLink. Our Carelink plan is a solution for employees working at large Massachusetts- and Rhode Island-based employers that live outside the Tufts Health Plan service area (Massachusetts, Rhode Island, and New Hampshire). You can enroll in this national network plan regardless of where you live.

What hospitals are affiliated with Tufts?

We have four other major academic partners: Lahey Hospital and Medical Center, Maine Medical Center, Newton Wellesley Hospital, South Shore Hospital, and many other highly-rated teaching partners (listed below).

Why is Tufts called Tufts?

Hosea Ballou (1796–1861), nephew of the theologian Hosea Ballou (1771–1852), was joined by Universalist church members in founding Tufts College in 1852 and served as its first president. It was named for its original benefactor, Charles Tufts of Somerville.

Why is Tufts so expensive?

The primary reason that Tufts relies so heavily on tuition is that we are underendowed compared to our peers. In other words, we have a much lower ratio of endowment to number of full-time students than many of our peer institutions, including the University of Pennsylvania, Northwestern and Brown.

Why is Tufts so popular?

The Tufts community is an incredibly diverse one, but there are some common threads that pull us together: our kindness, collaboration, commitment to civic engagement, and our intellectual playfulness.

Is Tufts considered elite?

The Little Ivies include all the schools of the New England Small College Athletic Conference and several schools outside New England. Elite liberal arts institutions, like Amherst College, Vassar College, and Tufts University, typically appear on Little Ivies lists.