From OrengonLive.com:
[kaiserthrive.org editor: It should be noted that Kaiser Permanente vigorously defended Dr. Death Jayant Patel in malpractice cases that were filed against him during his tenure at Kaiser. They only took action after several people had been harmed and revictimized by Kaiser lawyers in the rigged Kaiser arbitration process. Several recommendations were also [...]

Kaiser and Epic are going to great pains to do damage control and spread the positive PR in a new article by Wisconsin Technology Network, including planting a positive comment by a Kaiser employee who swears that HealthConnect is “beyond a doubt the best medical record” she has ever used. Unfortunately there are plenty [...]

San Francisco Business Times - November 10, 2006
by Chris Rauber
State health regulators have widened a probe of Kaiser Permanente’s process for handling complaints beyond its ill-fated kidney transplant unit and into other operations of the health-care giant.
The state Department of Managed Health Care’s investigation now covers Kaiser’s entire California system and includes a broad spectrum [...]

Update 11/7/06: The full text of Justen Deal’s email to all Kaiser employees has been archived here.

According to a new web site, www.fixkp.org, that was recently created by Justen Deal, a Kaiser manager:
Kaiser Permanente could face losses of as much as $7 billion dollars over the next two years. These losses would be [...]

From the Los Angeles Times:
Kaiser Told to Reinstate Coverage
Regulators’ action in a kidney patient’s case comes as scrutiny over cancellations grows.
By Lisa Girion, Times Staff Writer
October 19, 2006
State regulators for the first time have ordered a health plan to reinstate the insurance coverage of a patient whose policy was ruled to have been illegally canceled.
In [...]

Surgeon indicted on perjury charge — He’s accused of offering false alibi at gunman’s trial
Demian Bulwa, Chronicle Staff Writer
A San Francisco surgeon was indicted Thursday on charges that he committed perjury during a federal trial in 2002 in an attempt to win an acquittal for a man he had sponsored in a drug rehabilitation program.
Dr. [...]

From the Los Angeles Times:
By Charles Ornstein and Tracy Weber, Times Staff Writers
October 11, 2006
Kaiser Permanente’s disgraced San Francisco kidney transplant program had failed to remove the names of 90 dead patients from the national waiting list for organs, state officials discovered after the program shut down amid scandal in May.
Kaiser acknowledged Tuesday that it [...]

[kaiserthrive.org editor's note: Kaiser ALWAYS "loses" records when there is a problem. In fact, we've never heard of one single case of a dispute with Kaiser in which the incriminating evidence wasn't "lost," and/or the documentation falsified. Since Kaiser controls all of the evidence, this in combo with its rigged arbitration system is [...]

[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 [...]