"The holy grail for heart failure management... is not more home-based hospitalizations but, rather, fewer hospitalizations altogether." SCAN CEO Sachin H. Jain, MD, MBA discusses the hospital-at-home care model and shares his observations in the Au Contraire section of JACC Journals JACC: Heart Failure. https://lnkd.in/gngY8zxj
SCAN
Hospitals and Health Care
Long Beach, California 28,953 followers
SCAN is a mission-driven organization that is tackling some of the biggest issues in health care for older adults.
About us
About SCAN Keeping Seniors Healthy and Independent–that’s been our mission for more than 40 years. Founded in Long Beach, CA in 1977 by a group of senior activists committed to improving access to the care and services they needed as they aged, SCAN is a recognized leader in senior care. As one of the nation’s largest not-for-profit Medicare Advantage plans, SCAN also provides a range of community services, including the innovative programs of Independence at Home and robust community education and community giving. The SCAN mission is not something that just hangs on the wall, it’s a commitment understood and embraced by every employee. We believe in supporting our employees so they, in turn, can support our members as well as seniors and caregivers in the communities we serve. That means providing training, tools and opportunities for growth—and rewarding jobs well done. Our employees enjoy: - A competitive compensation and benefits program - An annual employee bonus program - Generous paid-time-off (PTO) - Ten paid holidays per year - Excellent 403(b) Saving Plan, providing up to 4% match and vesting after three years - Casual attire . . . wear jeans every day!! - A work-life balance and much more! Want to learn more about SCAN? Visit us at scanhealthplan.com
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- Industry
- Hospitals and Health Care
- Company size
- 1,001-5,000 employees
- Headquarters
- Long Beach, California
- Type
- Nonprofit
- Founded
- 1977
- Specialties
- Senior healthcare
Locations
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Primary
Long Beach, California 90806, US
Employees at SCAN
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Moyura Tan
Keeping Seniors Healthy and Independent... with people, process and tech
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Rob Scruggs
Chief Digital Officer | Head of Digital Transformation | Digital Strategy, Innovation & Engagement | Award-winning #DigitalLeader & #ChangeCatalyst…
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Lindsay Crawley-Herbert
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Sharon Kaur Jhawar, PharmD, MBA, BCGP
Updates
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Re-live the excitement of SCAN's 2nd annual drag show! Watch the video to see how the PLAID (People Leading Advocacy, Inclusion & Diversity) Employee Resource Group and SCAN employees celebrated love, diversity, and inclusion during #PrideMonth!
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Among the most heralded emerging care models is the “hospital-at-home” model, which aims to move management of low-acuity hospital patients to home-based settings. On its face, hospital-at-home aims to solves multiple problems at once: 1) addressing diminishing hospital inpatient bed capacity in the face of an aging population; 2) patient and caregiver frustration with the lack of convenience of inpatient settings; and 3) more robust postepisode management of acutely ill patients. Having led one of the largest early hospital-at-home programs, I have been an early and persistent supporter of the transition of care from hospital to home. That said, my optimism has been tempered somewhat with observations from the real-world implementation of hospital-at-home models in traditional fee-for-service health care environments. I share these observations in a new column in JACC Journals called “Au Contraire.” Thanks to Tariq Ahmad MD MPH for the opportunity to share my perspective.
Curing Ourselves of Toxic Positivity for Hospital-at-Home
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Happy 4th of July from SCAN! #IndependenceDay
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“SCAN is obviously a nonprofit plan, so this wasn’t a margin game for us... It was that the more revenue we have, the richer the benefits we can offer to our members, and also the better the payments to our provider partners as well,” SCAN CFO Michael Plumb emphasizes the significance of the recent CMS star ratings lawsuit ruling. https://ow.ly/oYmP50Sv4Xn MedCity News
Why Insurers Beat CMS In the MA Star Ratings Battle - MedCity News
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"I think part of our job is to make it easier for doctors to actually provide the kind of care that patients want by... having the benefit design align with patient preferences." SCAN CEO Sachin H. Jain, MD, MBA speaks on the importance of addressing health disparities and shares how SCAN does so through its population-specific plans on the Permanente Medicine Podcast. https://ow.ly/Jzt250SuNQY
Permanente Medicine Podcast: Ep. 35: Evolution in value-based care and its impact on medicine with Dr. Sachin Jain on Apple Podcasts
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Thank you to Jennifer Brooks-Mason, VP of Digital Strategy at SCAN Health Plan for sharing your insights on building consumer-centric experiences for the Medicare Advantage population with us at AHIP. We had a full house at our lunch & learn—validating the timeliness of addressing consumer-centricity for this dynamic group of seniors. Learn more about how you can elevate the quality of CX in MA plans here → https://lnkd.in/dKhPQEq9
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RSVP now! 🌟 Exciting news from mPulse: Just announced, Sachin H. Jain, MD, MBA., CEO of SCAN, is the keynote for #Activate2024! As we explore how insights and digital interventions can transform consumer health experiences, we are honored to have Dr. Jain share his perspectives on what better healthcare looks like. Join Dr. Jain, a leading voice in #healthcare, on the main stage as he offers deep insights into technology's role in reshaping healthcare experiences and driving critical decisions. Don’t miss this opportunity to be at the forefront of healthcare innovation! Register here: https://lnkd.in/gkdZ3qXe
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"...the insights we can get by leveraging AI has just been... really fundamentally changing the way we deliver care." SCAN CIO, Josh Goode, joins the BetterTech podcast to discuss how SCAN uses emerging tech to better support its members. https://ow.ly/BwCw50Stlcc
Monitor Health By Using Technology! Scan Health Plan | ft. Josh Goode | Better Tech
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Among the most difficult and complicated topics in managed care is utilization management. Doctors hate it. Patients hate it. And even employees in the managed care companies that perform utilization management hate the friction it creates with their most important constitutents. So why do we have utilization management? It’s unpopular to say so—but left unfettered, a small fraction of ordering doctors see the absence of utilization management as a license to order tests and procedures that aren’t indicated or aren’t necessarily valuable to patients. So, in short, to manage a meaningful fraction of outliers, the industry has engaged a blunt instrument—utilization management—to manage the cost (and quality; yes, hard to believe, but quality, too) of care. It has come to be viewed as a necessary evil of the system. SCAN has taken the position that most utilization management should be performed by medical groups that govern *themselves.* How does this work? We delegate most risk for patient management to at-risk medical groups (others would call these value-based medical groups) and then they make the decisions themselves about what care to authorize and what care to deny. This approach puts decisions about care closer to the doctors who are actually caring for the patients. In fact 92% of SCAN’s 280,000 patients are in these types of risk-based arrangements and not subject to *any* utilization management from us as the insurance company. While this approach works for us at SCAN, what do we do for the broader group of patients? For one thing, our industry must commit to faster turn-around and less administratively burdensome processes. What our industry puts doctors and patients through—long wait and hold times; unqualified reviewers; firm decisions that are easily reversed with enough pressure—is totally unacceptable and occasionally borders on abusive to doctors and patients. We need easy, real-time adjudication of ordering at the point of care and nothing less. Before the government imposes such standards, the industry should commit to fast turnaround times; rapid technology-based solutions; and an easy, timely appeals process. Will utilization management ever go away? No. Should it? No. But can we make it better for doctors and patients—and align it more with the original intent, yes. We have normalized something very abnormal and it’s time to look at ourselves in the mirror and ask whether this is the world we want. Almost of all of us would resoundingly say: No.