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Sachin Jain: A remarkable example of labor arbitrage in American healthcare

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Dec 15, 2024, 14:56

Sachin Jain: A remarkable example of labor arbitrage in American healthcare

Sachin Jain, President and CEO of SCAN Group, shared a post on LinkedIn:

“I can’t confirm whether this X post from Ellen DaSilva about One Medical’s New York practice is factually true or not – but, if true – it would be a remarkable example of labor arbitrage in American healthcare.

(And not totally unpredictable in the context of Amazon’s acquisition of the large medical group and the likely desire to squeeze margins out of the business).

Substituting one type of labor for another type is a long-standing, ongoing trend in US healthcare as healthcare organizations aim to reduce labor costs.

But there’s often little real discussion of what is gained and what is lost.

I wrote about this trend in a blog post a little while ago.

What are your thoughts on the practice of labor substitution? A necessary trend in an inflationary cost environment? Or a nefarious degradation of US healthcare quality?”

Sachin Jain: A remarkable example of labor arbitrage in American healthcare

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Sachin H. Jain is the President and CEO of SCAN Group and Health Plan and an Adjunct Professor of Medicine at Stanford University School of Medicine.

He also serves as a Board Member at The Paul and Daisy Soros Fellowships for New Americans, an Academic Hospitalist (WOC) at the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, and a Board Member at America’s Health Insurance Plans (AHIP). He is also a board member of Omada Health.