Clinical turnover has been on the rise since the pandemic’s onset, leading hospices to raise the bar on their recruitment and retention efforts. But a disconnect may exist between health care leaders and the underlying issues affecting frontline staff. Rising turnover during the pandemic has heightened workforce challenges for hospices and other providers throughout the […]
When stakeholders consider ways to improve Medicare Advantage, they should take care not to romanticize fee-for-service Medicare in the process, SCAN Health Plan CEO Dr. Sachin Jain cautions. Medicare Advantage (MA) is a growing force in health care. More MA plans emerge each year and the size of their beneficiary populations continues to grow. While […]
SCAN Health Plan is among the Medicare Advantage (MA) payers entering the hospice component of the value-based insurance design (VBID) payment demonstration in 2023. The four-year program — often called the Medicare Advantage hospice carve-in — launched Jan. 1, 2021, with 53 participating health plans. This number grew to 115 in 2022. Next year, 119 […]
A group of health care organizations is developing interoperable systems for sharing information on social determinants of health across care settings. The Sync for Social Needs Coalition seeks to standardize the types of data that providers collect from patient screenings for social determinants and develop ways to integrate that information into electronic medical records (EMR) […]
The U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) in 2023 will phase out dual-eligibility special needs look-alike plans within Medicare Advantage. Some hospice patients rely on these plans for other health needs, such as nursing home costs. Close to 12 million people in the United States qualify for both Medicare and Medicaid. Of those, […]
SCAN Group is executing a service diversification strategy designed to identify and address unmet needs of the California-based Medicare Advantage Organization’s beneficiaries. The company, whose holdings include SCAN Health Plan, most recently invested an undisclosed dollar amount in the non-emergency medical transport (NEMT) broker SafeRide Health. The objective underlying this strategy is to identify and […]
The U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) designed the Hospice Care Index (HCI) to paint a picture of care processes that occur between a patient’s admission and discharge, but as currently designed it may not be an effective measure of quality. Payers and referral partners are paying closer attention to hospices’ performance on […]
For better or worse, value-based care may be the most influential concept in 21st Century health care. And with the advent of new payment models, hospices are no longer on the outside of those programs looking in. While value-based care has sound underlying principles — improving quality and lowering costs — stakeholders often discuss these […]
SCAN Health Plan is partnering with MedArrive to provide COVID-19 booster shots and influenza vaccination to homebound beneficiaries throughout Los Angeles and Orange Counties in California. MedArrive leverages telehealth, emergency medical services (EMS) and other skilled providers to provide a range of home-based services, chronic condition management, transitional care, readmission prevention, urgent care, and palliative […]
MedArrive, a home-based care logistics and services company, has received $25 million in Series A funding, with venture capital firm Section 32 leading the round. MedArrive will apply the infusion of capital to spur product development and geographic expansion. MedArrive leverages telehealth, emergency medical services (EMS) and other skilled providers to provide a range of […]
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