SCANN Health Plan, a Medicare Advantage insurer, will expand its market reach into Arizona and Nevada in 2022. It’ll be the payer’s first time offering products outside of California, where it has 220,000 subscribers. The company’s total reach will increase to an estimated 5 million clients across 17 regions in three states as a result of the expansion, which will cover two additional counties in California.
- President: Jill Selby is SCAN’s senior vice president of product development and market expansion. “A lot of our members leave California and they move to other states like Arizona, like Nevada, and they want to stay in SCAN. So it just gave us that extra emphasis to push on and go to Arizona and Nevada.”
- Expertise: “SCAN Health Plan has, through our 40 years, almost perfected the art of senior care and senior health care,” Jill Selby told Home Health Care News. “Between our quality ratings, our service model, and other key differentiators, it was the right time to really expand and reach more seniors across the country.”
- Expansion: Selby said the insurer plans to further its reach in multiple states over the next five years. The company is also launching several new business initiatives, including Welcome Health, a medical group that will offer a combination of virtual and in-home primary care visits, and Healthcare in Action, a medical group that will provide healthcare to individuals experiencing homelessness.
- Natural move: “Shortly after our new CEO started, he came in and said, ‘SCAN is such a great thing. We need to take it to more seniors,’” she said. “We decided we would start expanding contiguously. Obviously, Arizona and Nevada are very close to California. We’re familiar with those markets, and we have some medical group partners that also do business in those states. It seemed like a natural move.”
- Plans: In 2022, the organization will offer plans in Clark County, Nevada, and in Maricopa, Pima, and Pinal counties in Arizona. In California, SCAN will enter the Alameda and San Mateo counties. In recent years, the organization has also accomplished this goal with the launch of Welcome Health, a geriatric primary care medical group that incorporates both virtual and in-home visits.