SCAN Health Plan Arizona Names Dave Firdaus Chief Operating Officer

SCAN Health Plan Arizona Names Dave Firdaus Chief Operating Officer (PHOENIX, AZ – July 27, 2011) — Dave Firdaus, MBA, has joined SCAN Health Plan Arizona as chief operating officer, effective today. In this newly created position, Firdaus will play a key role in the strategic, operational and financial direction of SCAN’s services in Maricopa and Pima counties.

Firdaus brings to SCAN nearly 15 years of management experience, most recently serving as vice president of the eastern region for Health Spring, a multi-state health plan that, like SCAN, works closely with the needs of seniors.

“Dave’s deep understanding of healthcare, especially as it pertains to seniors, will be a great asset to our providers, our partners and, most of all, our members,” said Elizabeth Russell, chief executive officer of SCAN Health Plan Arizona. “Equally as important, Dave is deeply passionate about SCAN’s not-for-profit mission, which is particularly important as healthcare goes through challenging times given healthcare reform and the aging of our society.”

Firdaus holds a Master’s of Business Administration in finance and business law from Duke University’s Fuqua School of Business and a Bachelor of Engineering from the Institut Teknologi Bandung in Indonesia. He is also the recipient of Booz Allen Hamilton’s Professional Excellence Award.

SCAN has been serving the Arizona market since 2006, when it was awarded a contract by the Arizona Health Care Cost Containment System to provide long-term care services to low-income elderly and physically disabled Arizonans enrolled in the Arizona Long-Term Care System (ALTCS) program in Maricopa County. In 2008 SCAN began offering a Medicare Advantage plan and now serves approximately 15,000 members in Maricopa and Pima counties.

For more than 30 years, SCAN Health Plan has been focusing on the unique needs of people with Medicare and today is the fourth-largest not-for-profit Medicare Advantage plan in the United States. SCAN serves nearly 130,000 members in California and Arizona. SCAN Health Plan Arizona has been named one of the area’s best places to work by the Arizona Business Journal and one of the best places to work in healthcare by Modern Healthcare. For further information, visit http://www.scanhealthplan.com.