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Paul Bartosic is an innovative health insurance leader with extensive experience in leading the strategic development of high-value solutions for markets and customers. As Vice President of the Commercial Markets' Specialty Products for Point32Health, Bartosic is responsible for the strategic direction and performance of the organization’s specialty product portfolio.

Earlier this year, Harvard Pilgrim Health Care, a Point32Health company, launched its first-ever dental and vision products, expanding the organization’s benefit offerings beyond medical coverage. Since July 2024, the organization has experienced great success, enrolling thousands of new members of employer-sponsored health plans.

Here, Bartosic offers insight into the organization’s portfolio expansion and the value to its commercial employer clients and health plan members.

Paul Bartosic: First, the connection that exists among oral, vision and overall physical health is driving an increased focus on core benefits across all industries and organizations. Both employers and their employees, including covered family members, rely on these services to maintain or improve health. 

With improved health, employees are happier and spend less of their time and hard-earned resources to address new or worsening health needs. Similarly, employers gain advantages in attracting and retaining talent, as well as enhancing overall employee well-being and company performance. There is also a growing desire to simplify the management of core benefits and drive increased engagement of health benefits – in support of overall financial health, maximizing the employer’s investment and keeping employee out-of-pocket costs down. With these needs in mind, expanding the portfolio with dental and vision products was a logical next step. Harvard Pilgrim is known for its exceptional service and ability to respond to the evolving needs of clients, and this product expansion helps further underscore those commitments. 

PB: Beyond Harvard Pilgrim’s commitment to providing access to comprehensive and quality-driven care, it’s also about improving the experience for employer customers. By offering all core health benefits though our market-leading medical, dental and vision plans, we can help ease the administrative burdens that exist when evaluating and managing multiple benefit providers, and gain access to better engagement opportunities for improving health outcomes among our health plan members. 

PB: The Point32Health family of companies is uniquely positioned to serve all markets across core healthcare needs. As a leading health and well-being organization offering products and services to employers through our Harvard Pilgrim brand, offering these vision and dental products alongside our medical coverage is differentiated in a couple of ways. 

First, these dental and vision products can be added to any employer-sponsored medical plan, including our Harvard Pilgrim products, to enhance an organization’s core health benefits. In addition, better insight into oral and/or vision health can present new opportunities for custom plan or benefit designs, in support of specific health goals and chronic conditions, such as diabetes or cardiac health.

The service and support experience provided through our dental and vision products meets the rigorous standards of Harvard Pilgrim Health Care. While not all dental and vision customers may participate in our medical plans, we believe they will benefit from our hands-on and consultative approach to service and account management.

Along with exceptional service and support, these dental and vision products will provide value and convenience to customers. Point32Health Dental provides comprehensive coverage for preventive, restorative and orthodontia services, with access to 350,000 dental locations nationwide. Point32Health Vision covers exams, lenses and frames; benefits can also be used at national retailers and independent providers for added convenience.

 
Harvard Pilgrim Health Care provides nationally ranked health plans and care-based programs and services to nearly 900,000 members in New England and beyond. In 2021, Harvard Pilgrim Health Care, Tufts Health Plan and our family of companies combined to create Point32Health. Today, Point32Health is a leading not-for-profit health and well-being organization, delivering a better health care experience to our members and the communities we serve.  

To learn more, visit: harvardpilgrim.org