Healthcare

ADVERTISING SUIT THAT TARGETS KAISER IS SET FOR TRIAL

January 8, 2002  ·  Consumer Watchdog

<p class="source">BestWire</p> <p>A consumer group's 1999 lawsuit against Kaiser Permanente, which accuses the health system of false advertising, is set for trial this fall.</p>

Lawsuit Disputes Truth of Kaiser Permanente Ads

January 7, 2002  ·  Consumer Watchdog

<p class="source">San Francisco Chronicle</p> <p>The long-running advertisements by Kaiser Permanente claimed medical decisions were "in the hands of doctors." But a consumer group says it will introduce documents during an impending trial that show those decisions were not only in the hands of th</p>

Cases Reveal Lapses In Emergency Care

January 2, 2002  ·  Consumer Watchdog

<p class="source">Los Angeles Times</p> <p>The Kaiser Permanente doctor who examined Harun Antwine had worked at least 10 hours that day, seeing 25 patients in his office and 15 more that evening at the HMO's Fontana urgent care center.</p>

Public airing of private justice

December 30, 2001  ·  Consumer Watchdog

<h3>Assemblyman calls hearings on mandatory arbitration</h3><p class="source">The San Francisco Chronicle</p> <p>After three years championing schools, diversity and the disabled, Assemblyman Darrell Steinberg is about to confront a legislator's nightmare.</p>

Repair, Don’t Merely Bandage, Health Care

December 27, 2001  ·  Consumer Watchdog

<p class="source">Los Angeles Times</p> <p>Another year has passed without solutions for a health care system that increasingly has given grief to all its stakeholders except the HMOs and insurance companies that control it.</p>

Judge upholds HMO chief

December 11, 2001  ·  Consumer Watchdog

<h3>Kaiser's request for finding him in contempt is denied</h3><p class="source">The San Francisco Chronicle</p> <p>A federal judge ruled yesterday that the state HMO czar was not in contempt for using the experience of a Medicare patient to justify a record-setting $1.1 million fine against Kaiser Permanente.</p>

Judge backs state in $1.1 million fine of Kaiser Permanente

December 11, 2001  ·  Consumer Watchdog

<h3>Court rules it was OK to cite case of Medicare patient</h3><p class="source">San Diego Union Tribune</p> <p>A federal judge ruled yesterday that the state can use the case of a Medicare recipient in levying a $1.1 million fine against Kaiser Permanente, despite arguments from the health plan</p>

Kaiser Permanente

December 10, 2001  ·  Consumer Watchdog

<p class="source">City News Service</p> <p>A federal judge today ruled that the California Department of Managed Health Care is acting within the law and can levy a $1.1. million fine against Kaiser Permanente -- the state's largest HMO.</p>

HMO Role: the Intimidator

December 10, 2001  ·  Consumer Watchdog

<h3>(Editorial)</h3><p class="source">Los Angeles Times</p> <p>On the morning of Jan. 26, 1996, Margaret Utterback awoke with a gnawing, sharp pain in her side and at 8:30 began trying to reach her doctor at Kaiser.</p>

Calif judge rejects HMO contempt motion

December 10, 2001  ·  Consumer Watchdog

<p class="source">United Press International</p> <p>A federal judge in Los Angeles refused Monday to charge the head of California's Department of Managed Care with contempt over a $1.1 million fine against a major health maintenance organization that was based, in part, on the death of a patient</p>

Battle over HMO penalty challenges state’s authority

December 10, 2001  ·  Consumer Watchdog

<h3>Critics say Kaiser is trying to intimidate the state's top healthcare official. The company questions the use of a Medicare case to justify a $1.1 million fine</h3><p class="source">San Jose Mercury News</p> <p>An arcane legal battle playing out in California is raising pivotal consumer health issues that could affect patient protections for millions of California seniors -- and, some fear, compromise the ability of the state's top HMO regulator to do his job.</p>

Kaiser HMO, New State Regulator Square Off

December 7, 2001  ·  Consumer Watchdog

<h3>Firm is trying to overturn the young agency's $1.1-million fine for alleged fatal lapses in care.</h3><p class="source">Los Angeles Times</p> <p>Kaiser Permanente, the state's largest HMO, and the fledgling California Department of Managed Health Care are butting heads in a case that tests regulators' ability to penalize health plans for alleged lapses in patient care.</p>