Word: kaiser
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...being driven by too many, in some cases to keep shareholders happy with fat profits. "In the fee-for-service days, there was a very perverse system that rewarded doctors for doing way too much medicine," says Dr. David Lawrence, chairman and ceo of California's huge, and nonprofit, Kaiser Permanente. "Now we have a system creating incentives to do too little." Dr. Alan Fogelman, head of UCLA's Department of Medicine, thunders, "People who are sick will be allowed to die because it's the best economically...
...managed-care plan in New Jersey spent only 59% of its premium dollars on care, while some California for-profit HMOs pay out as much as 88%. But few of the profitmakers pay out as much as the best nonprofit plans: 89% for Harvard Pilgrim Health Care, 94% for Kaiser...
...jolting a sleepy industry. At AMR's command center atop an Aurora high-rise, five dispatchers hunched in front of consoles track 60 ambulances with the aid of satellites. In Oregon, where the firm also has a lock on most of the nonemergency transport business, AMR last year added Kaiser's 343,000 members to its client base, reflecting that industry's consolidation too. Boasts chief operating officer George DeHuff, "Big providers can see the benefits of dealing with...
...WellBridge Center facilities include Cybex nautilus machines, free weights and Kaiser pneumatic equipment. Additionally, more than two dozen new cardiovascular machines, including exercise bikes, treadmills, stairmasters and rowing machines are also available...
...alternative movement has progressed from offbeat practitioners and adventurous patients to the medical establishment itself, as well as a growing number of health insurers. "We do a lot of clinical trials and research with these treatments," says Cary Badger, vice president of Kaiser-Permanente of Northern California, which reimburses its 5 million subscribers for some alternatives. "But our ultimate judges are our physicians, who feel these are reasonable alternatives...