About SCAN: SCAN Health Plan, founded in 1977, is a Medicare Advantage plan serving the needs of approximately 130,000 members in Southern and Northern California counties as well as in Maricopa County, Arizona. The company's mission is to continue to find innovative ways to enhance seniors' ability to manage their health and to continue to control where and how they live. Today, SCAN is the fourth largest not-for-profit Medicare Advantage health plan in the United States. SCAN also manages one of the largest and most successful Multi-Purpose Senior Service Projects in California.
"To drive major improvements, performance-based payments must exceed 10% of total provider income. Incentives of this magnitude can only be mobilized if they originate in payer savings.”
Arnold Milstein, MD, MPH,
Mercer Health
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Other IHA partnerships:
University of California Berkeley Center for Health Technology (BCHT) BCHT conducts research into existing and improved criteria for coverage, consumer cost-sharing, and other dimensions of management for biomedical innovations, and provides academic programs for UC Berkeley graduate students and professional development for health care organizations.
Network for Regional Healthcare Improvement (NRHI) , a national coalition of regionally-based, multi-stakeholder health improvement collaboratives that are working to improve the quality and value of health care delivery.
California Center for Public Health Advocacy, a nonpartisan nonprofit organizations that raises awareness about critical public health issues and mobilizes communities to promote the establishment of effective state and local health policies.
