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VIRGINIA
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/business/longterm/ethics/ethics1.htm
Beginning in
September 1991, doctors at the clinic saw
Lancaster at
least 10 times, according to records of a lawsuit the Lancasters filed.
The doctors treated her with adult-strength painkillers and other
medication.
But doctors Corder C. Campbell and Lisa Pauls did not refer Lancaster
to
a neurologist and did not obtain such diagnostic tests as an MRI or EEG
until May 1996, after a worried psychologist at Lancaster's high school
wrote a letter urging that tests be performed, according to court
filings.
Kaiser Hopes
to
Stem Loss of Members by Expanding Choices
http://news.kaiserpapers.org/stelos.html
Bioterrorism-Related
Anthrax - an Over View
The
anthrax terrorism has allowed for the first time a direct comparison of
fresh Kaiser guidelines as contrasted to the (also fresh) Center for
Disease Control guidelines. The subtle manipulation for cost
savings by Kaiser in the Washington, DC area is rather amazing.
But to double check my editorialized comparisons for possible
bias, any one can print out these two relatively short documents.
http://www.diodon349.com/Attack_on_America/bioterrorism-related_anthrax_an_overview.htm
The
Maryland State Legislature cannot retroactively strip
consumers’ rights
in Harvey v. Kaiser Foundation
Health
Plan of the Mid-Atlantic States -Trial Lawyers for Public Justice -
August
29, 2002
In a landmark victory for consumers’
rights, the highest court in the State of Maryland ruled on August 29,
2002, that the State Legislature cannot retroactively strip consumers’
rights in Harvey v. Kaiser Foundation Health Plan of the
Mid-Atlantic States, Trial Lawyers for Public Justice’s
constitutional challenge to a law that would have retroactively
validated an HMO’s unlawful double-billing of its members.
http://www.tlpj.org/pr/harvey_hmo_8-30-02.htm
WASHINGTON D.C.
Kaiser
Finds Urgent Need For Self-Care -Not worth the money Verizon says
Health
insurer Kaiser Permanente's Washington operation was
handed
a stinging rebuke last fall when Verizon Communications Inc. -- a
long-time
Kaiser customer -- told area employees it wasn't getting its money's
worth
from the HMO.
http://news.kaiserpapers.org/notworththemoney.html
Elderly
Patient Charged With Assaulting Physician
By Sarah Mark Washington Post Staff Writer Thursday, January
15, 2004;
Page VA14
Kwon Kim
of McLean felt pain in
his neck and shoulders
and went to Kaiser Permanente in the city of Falls Church on Dec. 30.
He left about two
hours later
with pain medicine and
a police summons charging him with assaulting a doctor.
NORTH
CAROLINA
Bayer
pays $9.3M to settle N.C. allegations
According
to
investigators, Bayer began privately
labeling Cipro for HMO Kaiser Permanente in August of 1995, an
arrangement that
netted $1.5
million in discounts yearly that
the drug maker failed to report or pay rebates on to Medicaid.
http://triangle.bizjournals.com/triangle/stories/2004/01/12/daily43.html?jst=b_ln_hl
Kaiser
sued numerous times in North Carolina - news article
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/ncnews.html
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. Since 1992, 10
Kaiser-related
lawsuits have been filed in North Carolina alleging medical neglect or
malpractice. Kaiser, with 127,000 members, is the fifth-largest HMO in
the state. In that period, the company has drawn more lawsuits from
patients
than other HMOs, according to an examination of state records and court
records
http://news.kaiserpapers.org/kaiser-has-the-most-lawsuits.html
GEORGIA
The state eliminated Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Georgia as an insurance provider, along with Kaiser.
Blue Cross and Blue Shield of
Georgia said it had determined that the department's decision to reduce
insurer options to Cigna and United Healthcare illegally cut out Blue
Cross and Blue Shield of Georgia and Kaiser, but DCH spokeswoman Matia
Edwards denied the claim.
By Bill Hendrick
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Published on: 07/26/08
Read Here
and mirrored here: http://news.kaiserpapers.org/state-eliminated-kaiser.html
Kaiser
Gets It's
Own Special Law In Georgia
In an
attempt to
appease Georgia's storefront pharmacists,
mail-order prescription legislation has been crafted so narrowly that
it
excludes
all Georgians
except
the 275,000 members of Kaiser
Permanente who use the HMO's 12 medical center pharmacies to fill their
prescriptions.
http://news.kaiserpapers.org/ownlaw.html
MARYLAND
Family:
Death from drug allergy was preventable
BRENDAN
KEARNEY
Daily
Record Legal Affairs Writer
November 29,
2007 6:52 PM
The family
of a Temple Hills woman who suffocated after receiving an
antibiotic at a Kaiser Permanente facility has filed a claim against
her doctor and health plan, alleging they failed to recognize and treat
her allergic reaction to the drug.
.......
Lodowski said the case is the worst his medical expert has seen in 20
years.
read more
at: http://www.mddailyrecord.com/article.cfm?id=3540&type=UTTM
mirrored for
historical purposes at:
http://horror.kaiserpapers.org/lavernewilliams.html
Kaiser
caught giving
improper gifts to former state senator, Larry Young (D-Baltimore), who
was expelled from the
Maryland General
Assembly on ethics charges. Young was accused of wrongfully
using
his office to collect money
from companies
and other organizations with business before the state. This article is
from 1998 and resulted
in a criminal
investigation.
http://news.kaiserpapers.org/bribe.html
Kaiser Opts
Out
of
Area Medicare HMO Plan /Maryland Area
http://news.kaiserpapers.org/opt.html
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