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Transplant Patients at Risk
Hundreds of people's lives were put in danger because of how Kaiser Permanente mishandled paper work after opening a kidney transplant center in San Francisco in 2004.
Tags: surgery; fraud; medicaid; medicare; organ sharing
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Transplant Trauma: A crisis uncovered at Kaiser
"The kidney transplant program at the nation's largest non-profit HMO, Oakland-based Kaiser Permanente, was supposed to a model organ transplant program for thousands of desperately ill patients. But it April 2006, KPIX-TV discovered that program was in complete disarray and those problems were endangering the lives of the more than 2,000 Kaiser patients in need of transplants."
Tags: organ transplant; HMO; Kaiser Permanentel; kidney
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Patel's disturbing record at Kaiser stayed hidden for years
In April 2005, Dr. Jayant Patel, who formerly had been a surgical star in Portland when he handled thousands of cancer and abdominal surgeries at Kaiser Permanente NW, surfaced as the subject of Australian media accounts, where patients called him "Dr. Death" after a string of botched surgeries. This was the trigger for a six-month investigation by the Oregonian, revealing that Kaiser had known about Patel's problems, waited years to address them, paid out millions of dollars in damages to his patients and failed to report malpractice allegations against him as the law required.
Tags: CAR; Jayant Patel; Kaiser Permanente; Dr. Death; medicine; surgery; malpractice
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Kaiser's dirty secret
New Times reports that "medical officials at a Kaiser Permanente hospital were warned twice that a renowned pediatrician was molesting his boy patients. Despite these warnings, the hospital took no effective steps to end the problem, and other boys were victimized."
Tags: Dr. Peter Fischer pedophiliac pedophile managed care hospital
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The Health Care Revoultion
As it has evolved in California, the HMO system often places the medical interests of patients in conflict with the financial interests of their doctors. This Los Angeles Times series documents how health maintenance organizations save money not simply by squeezing waste and inefficiencies from the system, but often by denying necessary medical care to the patients who need it most-the chronically and seriously ill. (August 27 - 31,1995)
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"Money For Nothing: Health Maintenance Organizations Have Come Up With a Way to Cut Spiraling Health Care Costs - Reward Doctors For Not Treating Patients"
This report uncovers how some health maintenance organizations are encouraging physicians to save money by offering patients less care - care that may be necessary.
Tags: HMOs; medicine; Kaiser Permanente; PacifiCare; Blue Cross; gatekeeper; Good Health Plan
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San Jose Mercury-News series examines one of the world's largest private providers of medical services; finds Kaiser keeps its costs low by providing as little care as possible; the company is sued for malpractice about twice as often as private doctors, December 1982.