Becker's Healthcare October 31, 2023
Sachin Jain, MD, has a message for Medicare Advantage critics: You’re right.
That message, of course, comes with a big asterisk.
Dr. Jain, who leads one of the nation’s largest nonprofit Medicare Advantage companies, is a proponent of fixing issues with the 26-year-old federal program versus tearing it all down — a notion that has been suggested in recent weeks by a former director of the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation.
“Any public policy program is going to create unintended consequences,” Dr. Jain, CEO of SCAN Group, told Becker’s. “What I would say to anybody who’s critical about the program is that you’re right, but let’s fix that.”
Some of the loudest critics of Medicare Advantage are hospitals...
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