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(LOS ANGELES, CA – January 3, 2007) — SCAN Health Plan recently announced that
the UCLA Health System, which includes UCLA Medical Center, Santa Monica-UCLA
Medical Center and the UCLA Medical Group, has joined the health plan’s provider
network, effective immediately. As a result, SCAN members now have access to
more than 100 UCLA primary care physicians in Santa Monica, Brentwood, Culver
City, Malibu, Manhattan Beach, Pacific Palisades and West Los Angeles as well as
at the nationally renowned medical centers in Westwood and Santa Monica.
UCLA Medical Group is primarily composed of faculty physicians of the David
Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA. For the second year in a row, the medical
group has been identified as one of California’s top performing physician
organizations by the Integrated Healthcare Association. UCLA Medical Center is
rated among America’s top five hospitals and has been rated the best hospital in
the western United States for 17 consecutive years by U.S. News & World
Report.
“We are thrilled to have UCLA join our provider network,” said Tim Schwab, M.D.,
chief medical officer at SCAN. “Its hospitals and medical group are known across
the country for providing an exceptional level of quality healthcare.”
“The UCLA Health System is excited to partner with SCAN to provide another
option for seniors in our community,” said Dr. Samuel Skootsky, medical director
of the UCLA Medical Group. “We look forward to caring for these patients in our
physician offices throughout the Westside and at our hospitals in Westwood and
Santa Monica.”
SCAN is one of California’s fastest-growing senior-focused health plans,
currently serving more than 90,000 Medicare-eligible individuals in Los Angeles,
Orange, Riverside, San Bernardino, Ventura and Kern counties. Effective January
1, 2007, SCAN will begin serving members in San Diego County through a
partnership with Scripps Health. In addition, the plan was recently awarded a
three-year contract by the Arizona Health Care Cost Containment System to
provide long-term care services in Maricopa County. Further information may be
obtained at www.scanhealthplan.com.
For more information about the UCLA Health System, log onto its Web site at
http://www.healthcare.ucla.edu or call 800-UCLA-MD1.
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