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SCAN Health Plan Adds Whittier-Based Presbyterian

Intercommunity Hospital and Presbyterian Health

Physicians into its Provider Network

(LONG BEACH, CA – February 23, 2005) — SCAN Health Plan announced today that Presbyterian Intercommunity Hospital and Presbyterian Health Physicians have joined the health plan’s network, effective immediately. As a result, seniors in the greater Whittier area now have access to these outstanding healthcare resources through their SCAN membership.

Since opening in 1959, Presbyterian Intercommunity Hospital has been recognized as the area’s leading hospital and healthcare center. Today, this not-for-profit health center serves more than 800,000 residents in 11 cities within southeastern Los Angeles County and portions of the San Gabriel Valley and Orange County. Presbyterian Health Physicians is widely regarded as one of the area’s premier medical groups with 112 primary care physicians serving the community.

“We are thrilled to add these wonderful healthcare providers into our network,” said SCAN Chief Medical Officer Timothy Schwab, M.D. “It is important to provide members with choice and easy access when it comes to their medical care, and both the hospital and the medical group have a long-standing, outstanding reputation within the community.”

SCAN is a not-for-profit organization focused exclusively on helping to make life better for seniors in Southern California. For more than a quarter of a century SCAN has demonstrated what Dr. Schwab describes as “a unique passion for finding innovative ways to enhance seniors’ ability to manage their own health and continue to control how and where they live.”

SCAN Health Plan currently serves 65,000 seniors in most of Los Angeles, Orange, Riverside and San Bernardino counties. In addition to providing members such comprehensive health plan services as routine physicals, hearing exams and prescription drug coverage, SCAN also offers qualified members Independent Living Power®, a collection of personal-care services that range from light cleaning to transportation escorts. SCAN also manages one of the largest and most successful Multi-Purpose Senior Service Projects (MSSP) in California providing community-based, long-term care and in-home personal-care coordination for low- income frail seniors. Further information may be obtained at www.scanhealthplan.com.