HNE has signed agreements with three key hospitals in Central Massachusetts.  Beginning in October, UMass Memorial Medical Center in Worcester along with Wing Memorial Hospital in Palmer and its affiliated Medical Centers are participating providers in the HNE provider network.  In September, HNE signed a provider agreement with the Fallon Clinic, a 255-doctor group practice with medical centers throughout central Massachusetts.  Athol Memorial Hospital in Athol joined the HNE provider network this past July.

With these additions, HNE is expanding the options available to subscribers, particularly those on the eastern edge of its western Massachusetts service area.  Subscribers to HNE now will be able to obtain care from these providers, in addition to Baystate Health and the many other facilities and practices in western Massachusetts.

According to Peter F. Straley, HNE President and CEO, the expansion to central Massachusetts was made to better serve its members.  “We have employer groups where 80 to 90 percent of their workforce is located in western Massachusetts, but the remaining 10-20 percent live in central Massachusetts.  By contracting with these providers we can better serve all our HNE members, especially those located on the edge of western and central Massachusetts.”

HNE Hospital Network at a Glance