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SCAN Health Plan CEO Sachin Jain: Don’t Lose Sight of Patients in the Quest for Value

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billion Medicare Advantage (MA) organization that covers more than 270,000 members. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Administrator Don Berwick. There, Jain helped establish the Center for Medicare & Medicaid Innovation (CMMI), which is charged with development and testing of value-based payment models.

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Key Trend for Hospices to Watch: Managed Care Becomes a Juggernaut

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Though hospices operate within the dedicated Medicare benefit, market forces in the system at large wield considerable influence on how they operate — including the meteoric rise of managed care. This is the second of three articles that will explore some of these trends. However, thus far, reactions to the demo have been mixed.

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