Kaiser Doctors Forgot to Read X-Ray, Delayed Treatment For 18 Months Leading to Patient Death
PRINCE GEORGE’S COUNTY, Md. — A New Carrollton woman is suing a Kaiser health plan and its doctors saying they first neglected to read her husband’s chest x-rays for eight months and then delayed needed treatment for nearly a year, resulting [...]

From San Francisco Business Times:
Kaiser whistleblower settles lawsuit over abrupt firing ? Merlin asked Kaiser for $5 million in damages
by Chris Rauber
David Merlin, the former administrative director of Kaiser Permanente?s troubled Northern California kidney transplant unit, has settled his wrongful termination lawsuit against Kaiser following a Dec. 18 arbitration hearing.
Merlin lost his job in February [...]

From the Los Angeles Times:
Suit accuses Kaiser of blackballing
Nursing assistant says she hasn’t been able to get work since aiding a patient-dumping probe.
By Tami Abdollah, Times Staff Writer
January 13, 2007
A former employee has sued Kaiser Permanente, claiming that the HMO “blackballed” her for participating in a criminal investigation into the alleged dumping of a homeless [...]

From the Los Angeles Times:
L.A. files patient ‘dumping’ charges — Kaiser Permanente is accused of leaving a homeless woman to wander on skid row.
By Richard Winton and Cara Mia DiMassa, Times Staff Writers
November 16, 2006
The Los Angeles city attorney’s office filed false-imprisonment and dependent care endangerment charges against hospital giant Kaiser Permanente on Wednesday, the [...]

From SignOnSandiego.com:
Medical board says physician ignored man’s cancer symptoms
By David Hasemyer
UNION-TRIBUNE STAFF WRITER
October 23, 2006
For the last two years of her husband’s life, Shirley Gaytan watched him wither away.
They both knew something was wrong, yet repeated visits to his doctor failed to provide an answer to his worsening health.
Draining the life out of Jesus Gaytan [...]

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 [...]

(AP) SACRAMENTO Thirteen former Kaiser Permanente custodians in Sacramento have sued the health care giant alleging racial discrimination.
The lawsuit claims that the September 2005 terminations of 12 blacks and a Fijian-Indian over timecard violations were racially motivated. It also alleges that preferential treatment was given to white employees for scheduling vacations or taking sick leave.
Kaiser [...]

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 [...]