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News Stories About Kaiser Permanente From Areas
that Kaiser was kicked out of!
Did you know
that Kaiser had a total of 124,000 enrollees,
Kaiser
Texas
"We basically said to the doctors, `If you value your job, you won't
say anything about hospitalization.' All you'll say is, `I think you
need
further evaluation..."The first thing that ever comes out of a Kaiser
CEO
now is what's the bottom line," Vogt said on a videotape of his speech.
"Anytime you have to balance the budget, how do you do it? You cut
utilization,
drop referral rates, and drop your hospitalization."
"The
reason we're revising that protocol now is
because our utilization
exploded" Vogt said. "The cost of dropping it to only one missed heart
attack was tripling our hospital days."
http://news.kaiserpapers.org/texasbadheart.html
1997 - DALLAS --
An HMO has agreed to pay $5.35 million to a family
who claimed that medical cost-cutting led to a man's death from
untreated
heart disease.
Lawyers for
the family of Ronald Henderson alleged that
a plan by Kaiser Permanente's North Texas HMO to cut hospital expenses
by 45 percent, plus an HMO official's speech that stressed putting
``the
bottom line'' first, led to the 56-year-old man's death.
http://horror.kaiserpapers.org/heart/corpuscristi.html
Fines and
related articles
http://fines.kaiserpapers.org/#Texas
DALLAS
-- Kaiser Permanente - An HMO has agreed to pay $5.35 million to a
family
who claimed that medical cost-cutting led to a man's death from
untreated
heart disease.
Lawyers for the family of Ronald Henderson alleged
that
a plan by Kaiser Permanente's North Texas HMO to cut hospital expenses
by 45 percent, plus an HMO official's speech that stressed putting
``the
bottom line'' first, led to the 56-year-old man's death.
The
HMO agreed to the settlement Tuesday after a test
jury in a novel nonbinding minitrial said it would have awarded the
family
more than 10 times that amount if the case had gone to an actual trial.
http://horror.kaiserpapers.org/heart/tex2116.html
Managed Care Insurer Liability : The Texas
Law
Explanations
on how the state of Texas has handled HMO issues more productively,
more fairly, for proactively for the patient than other areas.
Care Versus
Cost
Nation’s
Wealthiest HMO Leaves Jury Outraged
Feb. 13,
1998
FORREST SAWYER
It begins
with a malpractice lawsuit in Texas, a family claiming the negligence of the country’s largest HMO,
Kaiser Permanente, left their loved one dead. During the trial, startling
evidence emerged, an internal speech by a Kaiser
administrator. The administrator painted a picture of a company that
appeared willing
to risk placing profit above patient welfare. Together with the rest of
the
evidence, the speech stunned jurors and helped drive Kaiser to settle
the
lawsuit for
millions.
http://horror.kaiserpapers.org/drophospitalization.html
HOW
KAISER'S COST-SLASHING NICKED ITS IMAGE - Texas
SHUTTERED HOSPITALS.
Meanwhile, Texas State
Attorney General Dan Morales says there are
''sufficient grounds and
justification'' for
the state to yank Kaiser's HMO license.
October 31,
1998 Sierra
Health
Subsidiary Completes Purchase of Kaiser Southwest; Texas Health Choice
Will Be New Name
http://news.kaiserpapers.org/texsierra.html
Kaiser
Permanente and TDI Settle Dispute
April 18,
1997
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Kaiser
Foundation Health Plan of Texas agreed today to drop its lawsuit
against the Texas Department of Insurance, pay a $1 million fine and
take
specific steps to assure high-quality patient care for its 124,000
enrollees.
http://news.kaiserpapers.org/kaisergiveuptexas.html
Kaiser New
York - Kaiser Massachusetts
- Kaiser Connecticut
- Kaiser Vermont
May 13, 1999 - The
New York state attorney general's office is investigating some
managed-care plans for possibly violating a state law by telling
patients and doctors that patients must first get approval from their
primarycare doctor to be covered for an emergency-room visit. The HMOs, which include Oxford Health Plans Inc., Cigna Corp.'s Cigna HealthCare unit and Kaiser Permanente's
Northeast health plan, have received subpoenas, the attorney general's
office said. The office is seeking materials that it believes would
show violations of the socalled "prudent layperson" standard of a 1996
state patient's rights law. http://news.kaiserpapers.org/subpoena-in-new-york.html
Kaiser is leaving not just Vermont,
but all of New England 100,000 customers here are a small piece of the
puzzle. That said, Kaiser lost millions of dollars in
Vermont and was gaining a reputation for less-than-perfect customer
service. In a competitive world, those are the companies that do not
and should not survive.
http://news.kaiserpapers.org/kaiserleavesvermont.html
Rude
Awakening When Kaiser Retreats
By
the end of 1999, Kaiser Permanente is leaving western
Massachusetts, two regions in New York, parts of Connecticut and all of
Vermont.
.....The
era of having group practices exclusive to one insurer has
probably passed.
http://news.kaiserpapers.org/odato.html
Kaiser
Permanente Pulls out of Kansas City several fines and sanctions on this
web page.
http://news.kaiserpapers.org/kansascity1.html
Kaiser
vs Director of Revenue State of Missouri - Kaiser advised
that
they do have to pay sales tax and cannot get a refund.
http://tinyurl.com/2evv9z
and
http://www.oa.mo.gov/ahc/case/KaiserFoundationHealthPlanOfKC01-1135RV.KAW.doc
North Carolina
There
is lots of good
information on the entire Kaiser system, and why
they failed in so many areas in this following document from the
university
of North Carolina.
http://www.unc.edu/~danielg/research_projects/kaiser.pdf
The
Rise and Fall of a Kaiser Permanente Expansion Region
From The Insider - The North
Carolina State Government News Service
V. 4, No.
93 Monday, May 13, 1996 18 pages
HMO LAWSUITS RAISE ISSUES: Kaiser Foundation Health Plan of North
Carolina,
the first large, out-of-state HMO to tap the N.C. market in 1985, has
grappled
with a spate of patient lawsuits in recent years.
http://news.kaiserpapers.org/morethanany.html
RALEIGH,
N.C.--(BW HealthWire)--Aug. 17, 1999--
The Carolina
Permanente Medical Group Also Signs Agreement
With PARTNERS
Enabling Members to Continue Receiving Care
From Their
Permanente Physicians After the Sale
PARTNERS
National Health Plans of North Carolina Inc. has signed a
definitive sale agreement with Kaiser Foundation Health Plan to
transfer Kaiser's employer-sponsored and Medicare membership in the
Raleigh-Durham-Chapel Hill area to PARTNERS.
PARTNERS, a
subsidiary of Novant Health Inc., is based in
Winston-Salem, N.C. The sale is expected to close on or before December
31, contingent upon regulatory and other customary approvals. Financial
terms were not disclosed.
http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0EIN/is_1999_August_17/ai_55467652
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