• In acquisition, Atrius rejected the biggest names in Massachusetts health care. Here’s what it all means.
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    In acquisition, Atrius rejected the biggest names in Massachusetts health care. Here’s what it all means.

    A search for suitors in 2020 would ultimately pit some of the largest names in Massachusetts and national health care against one another, including the state’s largest insurer, Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts, several large health systems — Mass General Brigham, Tufts Medicine, and Beth Israel Lahey Health — and the country’s largest physician organization, Optum Care. In the end, Optum won. Experts say that the behind-the-scenes details, spelled out in court documents, are a microcosm of the jockeying for power and market share happening on the local and national scale. The result, signed off on by Attorney General Maura Healey and the state’s Supreme Judicial Court in April,…

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