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...volunteered cash compensation to Hilson, which he accepted. And there are many things he knows today that he wishes he had known before his surgery. Only six months earlier, the physician operating on him, Dr. Michael McEnany, then 55, had resigned as chief of cardiovascular surgery at San Francisco Kaiser Permanente Medical Center after peers raised serious questions about his competencey. He had been forbidden to operate without another surgeon assisting. Hilson had no way of knowing that background, or that the medical board of California would later accuse McEnany of incompetence and gross negligence in eight surgeries that went...
...might think that McEnany would have had a hard time landing the Wisconsin job after his California experience. But as part of his resignation deal, according to California officials, Kaiser agreed to terminate McEnany's practice review and not file a report to the medical board of California, as the hospital was required to do. When officials at Luther Hospital ran a routine background check on McEnany, there were no red flags. Had a Kaiser whistle-blower not tipped off the California medical board in 1996, sparking an investigation that led to McEnany's surrender of his licenses in California...
...large employers provided health benefits for retirees 65 and older in 2001, vs. 80% a decade earlier, according to a survey by consultants Hewitt Associates. Eight of 10 large employers say they will probably increase the amount employees pay for health care this year, according to the Kaiser Family Foundation. On average, workers today contribute $174 a month for family coverage, up from...
...drug industry argues that Medicaid patients are being treated unfairly. "It really is inappropriate to balance your budget on the backs of poor and disabled Medicaid patients with restricted drug lists," said Jeff Trewhitt, a spokesman for the Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers Association. And a new Kaiser Family Foundation study finds that not all state preferred drug lists are created equal: Beneficiaries are most satisfied in states that have streamlined prior authorization processes, so they can get their medications quickly, and drug lists that are drawn up in consultation with pharmacists and physicians...
Emergency Contraception prevented more than 50,000 abortions in 2000 alone, even though, according to a survey sponsored by the Kaiser Family Foundation, 25 percent of American women have never heard of EC and 66 percent did not even know it was available in the U.S. These numbers lead to obvious conclusions—if more women learn about EC, fewer women would ever need to consider, let alone seek, a potentially emotionally devastating abortion...