Health insurer Harvard Pilgrim, which has operations in Hartford and began selling plans in Connecticut last year, said it has acquired an Arkansas firm that provides health behavior coaching to employees.
TrestleTree Inc. offers health risk assessments, and programs for smoking cessation , weight loss and stress management. It also has its own software that monitors and reports on patient progress.
TrestleTree is a part of two accountable care organizations, which seek to improve health outcomes across large groups of patients.
Terms of the deal were not disclosed.
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Correction: The original version of this story incorrectly stated that Harvard Pilgrim sells health plans on the Access Health CT exchange.
