Healthcare

Bonus pay tied to patient care

January 16, 2002  ·  Consumer Watchdog

<h3>Six health plans are set to assess medical groups for their service quality and to reward good ones.</h3><p class="source">Sacramento Bee</p> <p>Six California health plans Tuesday unveiled a joint venture to pay bonuses to physician groups based on patient satisfaction and quality of care.</p>

Bonus time

January 15, 2002  ·  Consumer Watchdog

<h3>California association plans to reward physicians for good patient care</h3><p class="source">Modern Healthcare</p> <p>A collaboration of California health plans, medical groups and employers is expected this week to unveil a statewide healthcare initiative that uses money from insurance premium increases to reward physicians for improving the quality of patient care.</p>

A Shift to Quality by Health Plans

January 14, 2002  ·  Consumer Watchdog

<h3>Newest approach would reward better care--but give consumers more responsibility.</h3><p class="source">Los Angeles Times</p> <p>Six California health plans are expected to announce Tuesday what they call an "unprecedented" effort to improve patient care and control spiraling health-care costs by rewarding doctors and hospitals for quality, not just efficiency.</p>

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  ·  Jamie Court

<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>