Becker's Healthcare June 15, 2023
SCAN Group and CareOregon recently partnered with RIP Medical Debt to wipe out $110 million in medical debt, but the payers’ CEOs said true relief must come from billing system reforms, Yahoo Finance reported June 14.
“We’ve normalized the abnormal,” SCAN CEO Sachin Jain, MD, told the news outlet. “It is not normal in most countries for medical care to be something that you fear because it will put you in debt from which it’s impossible to recover.”
Dr. Jain said he is hoping the healthcare system will look more broadly at its billing and collection practices, pricing and transparency and...