Home-based care providers are increasingly earning a seat at the table for care-pathway transitions, including whether an inpatient hospital stay is truly necessary before a patient moves to a skilled nursing facility (SNF). Some payers require a two-day hospital stay before authorizing a transition from home to a SNF. But SCAN Health Plan is cutting […]
A growing number of health plans recognize the value of home-based care, with some taking active steps to ensure their members actually utilize these care services. Engagement with health care services has historically been a persistent challenge for health plans, as SCAN Group CEO Dr. Sachin Jain has previously noted. “Patients are not necessarily engaged […]
One of the biggest opportunities that home-based care providers have today is to dive deeper into patient engagement, according to SCAN Group CEO Dr. Sachin Jain. Jain, during a panel at the Home Care Innovation + Investment Conference in Chicago last week, said that while patient engagement and education is an issue with health care […]
The SCAN Group and CareOregon announced late Wednesday that they have entered an agreement to combine under the name HealthRight Group. It’s a deal that is, at least to some extent, more than two years in the making. On Sachin Jain’s first day in his new role as president and CEO at the SCAN Group, […]
Now more than ever, Medicare Advantage (MA) organizations are including home-based care services in their plans. While some organizations are giving their members access to these offerings for the first time, others have long embraced home-based care. One of these early adopters is SCAN Health Plan, which is one of the nation’s largest not-for-profit MA […]
Dr. Sachin Jain – the CEO of SCAN Health Plan – is a provocateur on the topic of home-based care. I’ve talked to him in the past about his concerns with value-based care, for instance, at a time when value-based care is almost ubiquitously championed. In a closed-door discussion on Thursday, Jain offered more of […]
The SCAN Group is furthering its reach in the American Southwest, with plans of expanding into Texas and Nevada. The Long Beach, California-based SCAN Health Plan – a part of the overarching SCAN Group and a Medicare Advantage (MA) plan – will start offering services in Texas starting in 2023. SCAN also plans to expand […]
The SCAN Group announced on Thursday that it has acquired The Residentialist Group (TRG), an organization that provides chronic disease management, palliative care and home-based care to seniors. The deal is noteworthy because it marks the first time the organization has acquired an outside company. SCAN declined to disclose financial terms of the deal. “A […]
It would be silly to have an argument over whether value-based care is a good principle. That’s unless, of course, you had to parse out what exactly each individual or organization meant when they referred to value-based care. No one would argue – or should argue – that making the health care system more focused […]
The Program of All-Inclusive Care for the Elderly (PACE) model has certainly drawn increased interest during the COVID-19 pandemic, a frequently repeated fact that’s both generally true and also relatively ambiguous. Now, there are organizations and faces behind that “interest” in the home- and community-based care model. At the end of February, SCAN Health Plan […]
