New Kaiser Thieves Parody
We haven’t done one of these Thrive ad parodies in awhile. Hope you enjoy it, and as always, feel free to copy, email and share. The rest of the parodies can be found here.
Yearly Archives: 2012
Catch Up Post — Part 4
Kaiser News and Scandals Part 4, Privacy and ‘Thrive’-acy Edition. Another case of inappropriately accessed electronic medical records. This happens a lot. Anyone at KP with a Health Connect login can access your records at any time. Yes, there are access logs, and if it is discovered the person will be disciplined — but that… Read More »
KP’s website down? What does George Zimmerman have to do with it?
We have been receiving a lot of visits from folks accessing via search engine queries for variations of the term “Kaiser website down.” Don’t know if this has anything to do with it, but we did receive the following email a couple of days ago: Please let your readers know that they must be very… Read More »
Catch Up Post — Part 3
So many scandals, so little time. Enjoy Part 3 of our belated Kaiser Permanente News Roundup. Kaiser involved in Pay-to-Play scheme intended to provide lobbyists with off-the-record access to Obama administration officials, members of Congress, and the Washington Post’s reporters and editors. So what else is new? The Colorado Division of Insurance fined Kaiser $367,000… Read More »
Catch Up Post — Part 2
Part 2 of the Kaiser Permanente stories we missed during our hiatus from posting: After an initial refusal by Kaiser, California Department of Managed Health Care officials finally obtained the documents needed to complete investigation of a complaint that call center scripts sometimes lead to misdiagnoses and delayed care. Two Bay Area residents filed a… Read More »
Catch Up Post — Part 1
So many Kaiser stories have crossed our desk during the time we were not posting regularly that it would be impossible to put them all in one entry. The following is Part 1 of our attempt to catch up (we’ll add these to the Horror Stories pages later). Some of them were widely reported at… Read More »
They want me back
If there is anyone left out there who still finds it difficult to believe that Kaiser Permanente is nothing more than a huge, uncaring bureaucracy that values money more than the needs of individual patients, the following letter I received from Kaiser VP Mitch Ross should finally put those doubts to rest forever: They want… Read More »
KP Southern California colorectal surgery nightmare
The following Kaiser Permanente horror story arrived in our inbox a few days ago. This unfortunate patient has been put through hell for over a year without so much as an apology, and — you guessed it — as usual the medical records do not reflect the truth of what occurred. Meanwhile, in our area… Read More »
Another case of missing records and unnecessary death at Kaiser Permanente
Received from a loving husband who lost his wife at the hands of Kaiser, only to be put through the full “Kaiser Treatment,” consisting of stonewalling, mutilated medical records and attempts to discredit him. Unfortunately he isn’t the first. By Richard May This is going to be a very hard thing for me to relive,… Read More »