{"id":136073,"date":"2025-09-06T02:25:11","date_gmt":"2025-09-06T02:25:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/136073\/"},"modified":"2025-09-06T02:25:11","modified_gmt":"2025-09-06T02:25:11","slug":"scan-group-launches-health-insurance-is-broken-campaign","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/136073\/","title":{"rendered":"SCAN Group Launches \u2018Health Insurance Is Broken\u2019 Campaign"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Medicare Advantage organization SCAN Group is sending a pointed message to health care consumers \u2014 health insurance is broken. <\/p>\n<p>Many hospices rely on private insurance for non-senior patients, as well as Medicare Advantage plans and other payers for other services such as palliative care or home health. SCAN is launching a public information campaign designed to educate consumers and others in the health care space about issues in the insurance marketplace.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe cracks are everywhere. You don\u2019t need to be somebody who works in this industry to know that. You just need to be a patient in American health care,\u201d SCAN Group CEO Dr. Sachin Jain told Hospice News. \u201cYou know from the first minute that you get your explanation of benefits that a lot of the things you need may not be covered. Lots of plans have very low dollar coverage in this country at this point. And then there\u2019s the experience of actually getting your care, where there\u2019s tons of access issues.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A centerpiece of the multi-faceted, multi-media campaign is a video entitled <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=q7bty0M9ySA\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Health Insurance is Broken<\/a> that examines the frustrations that many people in the United States experience with their insurance. Further resources provide a look into what SCAN is doing to drive change.<\/p>\n<p>SCAN Group, a nonprofit, operates the Medicare Advantage plan SCAN Health Plan, which services more than 310,000 members across California, Arizona, Nevada, Texas, Washington and New Mexico. It also operates several medical groups, including Healthcare in Action, Welcome Health, Homebase Medical and myPlace Health, as well as community services Independence at Home subsidiary.<\/p>\n<p>The campaign launched in advance of the Medicare open enrollment period, which begins Oct. 15. It will run through December in markets that SCAN serves. The campaign will air across broadcast, cable, connected TV, radio, digital, print, billboards, bus wraps and transit shelters.<\/p>\n<p>Nearly 42% of people in the United States report delaying or going without health care due to costs or coverage gaps, according to a 2023 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.commonwealthfund.org\/publications\/surveys\/2023\/oct\/paying-for-it-costs-debt-americans-sicker-poorer-2023-affordability-survey?utm_source=chatgpt.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">report<\/a> from the Commonwealth Fund.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPeople are stuck in endless cycles of approvals. They\u2019re caught off guard with bills that they didn\u2019t expect. They\u2019re not able to get the drugs that they need authorized,\u201d SCAN Chief Marketing Officer Nishant Shukla told Hospice News. \u201cOur opportunity here was to just tell the truth. Rather than painting platitudes of people doing yoga on the beach, we wanted to talk about the stark truth and the experience that many have in the health insurance system today.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Medicare Advantage organization SCAN Group is sending a pointed message to health care consumers \u2014 health insurance&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":136074,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[59],"tags":[97,252,253,85289],"class_list":["post-136073","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-health-care","tag-health","tag-health-care","tag-healthcare","tag-scan-group"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136073","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=136073"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136073\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/136074"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=136073"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=136073"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=136073"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}