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 of… Read More »
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… Read More »
Update 11/7/06: The full text of Justen Deal’s email to all Kaiser employees has been archived here.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… Read More »
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… Read More »
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… Read More »
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… Read More »
[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 how it… Read More »
[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 possibilities of redemption,”… Read More »
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… Read More »
[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… Read More »