Kaiser and its advertising goons Campbell-Ewald have recently announced the newest phase of the Thrive brand campaign, which stresses preventative care and features a Saturday Night Fever style “Stayin’ Alive” parody, among other silliness. This after months of bad publicity over the failure of its kidney transplant program, which caused the deaths of over [...]

[kaiserthrive.org editor: Yet another Kaiser Fraudster gets off easy. This time it's Henry Mead Kaiser -- former Kaiser board member and grandson of Kaiser Permanente founder Henry J. Kaiser -- over swindling a California company out of $25 million. Kaiser's lawyer argued that the light sentence would "send a message about the [...]

By Evelyn Pringle
Although the $2 million fine levied against Kaiser Permanente was the largest ever imposed by the California Department of Managed Health Care, it seems like small potatoes considering the damage caused by the HMO’s failed kidney transplant program.
The second largest fine ever levied against an HMO was $1 million back in 2002, following [...]

From the Sacramento Bee:
Case now includes accusations by 13 female patients.
By Christina Jewett — Bee Staff Writer
The former Kaiser plastic surgeon charged in June with sexually exploiting a patient now faces charges of sexual misconduct toward 13 patients, according to an updated criminal complaint.
Dr. Scott Takasugi is alleged to have unnecessarily touched and photographed women’s [...]

[kaiserthrive.org editor: Finally, vindication for the 'disgruntled' ex-members and -employees who have had their mental health questioned for complaining that Kaiser always handles grievances this way. We hope the DMHC will also investigate itself for pretending it hasn't been ignoring the problem for years.]
From the L.A. Times:
By Tracy Weber and Charles Ornstein, Times Staff Writers
August [...]

From the Los Angeles Times:
By Charles Ornstein and Tracy Weber, Times Staff Writers
August 10, 2006
Kaiser Permanente has agreed to pay a $2-million fine after state HMO regulators found that its Northern California kidney transplant program imperiled hundreds of patients, in some cases delaying critical surgeries or losing track of patients altogether, four people familiar with [...]

From the Los Angeles Times:
Shifting them from the HMO transplant center to UC hospitals will take far longer than thought.
By Tracy Weber and Charles Ornstein, Times Staff Writers
California HMO regulators said this week that it will take months longer than expected to transfer about 2,000 patients out of Kaiser Permanente’s troubled kidney transplant center in [...]