Healthcare Innovation October 13, 2025
Health plan CEO discusses his recent Forbes opinion piece on why health system execs end up justifying actions that may harm patients
Key Highlights
- Ethical erosion occurs when healthcare leaders rationalize practices that conflict with their publicly stated values due to external pressures, according to Sachin Jain, M.D., M.B.A.
- Healthcare leaders must balance financial sustainability with ethical responsibility to ensure the system remains patient-centered and trustworthy.
In a recent Forbes article, Sachin H. Jain, CEO of California-based SCAN Group and SCAN Health Plan, one of the nation’s largest nonprofit Medicare Advantage plans, explored the concept of “ethical erosion,” He describes that healthcare leaders, under relentless financial and regulatory pressures, end up rationalizing...
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