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Tufts Health Plan to sell part of business to seal Harvard Pilgrim merger
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The proposed merger between Massachusetts-based health insurers Harvard Pilgrim Health Care and Tufts Health Plan is likely to close early next year after Tufts agreed to divest its commercial health insurance business in New Hampshire.
The U.S. Justice Department s antitrust division and New Hampshire s attorney general filed a lawsuit Monday to block the proposed merger unless the parties agreed to resolve potential competitive harm by selling Tufts Health Freedom Plan to UnitedHealth Group. Tufts said it has agreed to do so.