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Archive for May, 2007

It was a slight miscalculation.

By admin • May 31st, 2007 • Category: Medsphere, healthcare

Kenneth Kizer, chairman and chief executive at Medsphere, resigned last week.
In the manual of public relations tricks, I guess issuing a troubling press release on a Friday must have been deprecated in favor of not issuing one at all.
Tim posted word of the resignation at 6:25 Friday morning, while Modern Healthcare got around to it [...]



I find it hard to trust.

By admin • May 31st, 2007 • Category: Kaiser Permanente, WellPoint, healthcare

WellPoint just announced that it has forced the resignation of David Colby, its chief financial officer, after an investigation uncovered undisclosed violations of the firm’s code of conduct.
It is disappointing, I imagine, for their incoming chief executive officer, Angela Braly, to have one of the first announcements under her watch be so embarrassing.
The company wouldn’t [...]



Has it come to this?

By admin • May 6th, 2007 • Category: HealthConnect, Kaiser Permanente, business

Kaiser Permanente reported its first quarter financial results late Friday. You’d be hard-pressed to find any actual coverage of the results, but if any newspaper cared enough to cover the financial health of the largest not-for-profit healthcare provider in the country, it would go something like…
Kaiser Foundation Health Plan and Hospitals, the largest not-for-profit [...]