I posted last week that membership growth at Kaiser Permanente has crumbled for the past three quarters, down 75% so far this year, a seemingly significant fact that was buried six paragraphs down in the quarterly press release. The news only gets worse from there, sadly. While potential new members are staying far, [...]
Posted in Cost of Care, Kaiser Permanente on Nov 12th, 2007
Update: Two hours later and KP still has not yet posted the results to its website, so here is a link to a PDF of the results. You have to dig down to the sixth paragraph to find mention of the “relatively flat” membership growth, which I’ve highlighted for your convenience.
Kaiser Permanente announced its [...]
Posted in Kaiser Permanente on Nov 7th, 2007
I’m going to get to George Halvorson being one of the eight seven chief executives “honored” by a so-called “Diversity Best Practices” company in just a minute. Before I do, you should know that Kaiser Permanente is expected to report its third quarter financial results this week, and the picture is not looking good. [...]
Posted in Kaiser Permanente on Nov 2nd, 2007
The much bigger story today is that George Halvorson is once again proving that he has destroyed accountability at Kaiser Permanente: instead of paying a $25,000 fine for an egregious medication error that led to the death of a baby, he’s ignoring the fine. Read the story over at Kaiser Thrive. I’ll have [...]
Posted in HealthConnect, Kaiser Permanente on Oct 29th, 2007