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CalMatters.org $200million slap to KP for failing behavioral health patients

In what it described as a “historic agreement,” the California Department of Managed Health Care announced Thursday that it has settled with Kaiser Permanente over the company’s failure to deliver adequate behavioral health care services to its patients. The settlement … includes a $50million fine, (the department’s biggest ever on a health plan) and $150 million in investments over five years to improve Kaiser’s behavioral health programs.

Two years ago, the CDMHC reported a 20% jump in complaints from KP behavioral health patients compared to the year before, prompting an investigation [that revealed] Kaiser’s average wait time for follow-up therapy appointments [in 2021] was 19 days, exceeding the 10-day legal maximum.

In a statement, the National Union of Healthcare Workers — which represents 2,000 Kaiser mental health workers in Northern California and led a 10-week strike in 2022 — said the settlement “affirms everything that Kaiser therapists have said about their patients’ inability to receive timely, adequate mental health care.”

………………..“In other news,” as the saying goes…

Kaiser Permanente healthcare workers rally outside Kaiser Permanente Los Angeles Medical Center in Los Angeles on Wednesday, Oct. 4, 2023. Some 75,000 Kaiser Permanente hospital employees who say understaffing is hurting patient care walked off the job Wednesday in five states and the District of Columbia, kicking off a major health care worker strike. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes)

TheConversation Largest known healthcare worker strike in US history brings a union-KaiserPerm negotiated agreement to the vote.

The Coalition of Kaiser Permanente Unions reached  a tentative agreement with its employer on a new four-year contract on Oct. 13, 2023. … following the largest documented strike of U.S. health care works on record … more than 75,000 workers in several states and the District of Columbia. A majority of the [combined] union’s 85,000 members will need to approve the deal for it to become final. The voting began on Oct. 18.

The Conversation asked Michael McQuarrie, an Arizona State University sociologist who directs its Center for Work and Democracy, to explain what’s in the settlement and why it matters….

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…The new contract would also leave in place restrictions on Kaiser’s ability to outsource or subcontract union jobs … [it] includes provisions for training new health care workers that the union had sought [and the coalition] has agreed to streamline the process for internal bidding on open positions to help Kaiser resolve [massive] staffing shortfalls….

     McQuarrie wanted the union viewpoint on what made the strike necessary, following new-contract bargaining that had officially begun in April 2023. He found a strong sense that Kaiser’s management team had disengaged when the coalition of unions found KP”s initial terms unacceptable in view of working conditions, compensation, healthcare and pension and retirement healthcare benefits, staff shortage, and management intention to increase use of subcontracted nonunion workers.

     Long previous commitments by Kaiser to fill the vacancies causing prolonged, crisis-level nderstaffing had only reached 65%. Coming on top of the pandemic’s unprecedented levels of strain between workers and management —borne out by a 2022 union survey and numerous academic studies— KP’s nonresponsiveness clear to last-minute negotiations on the unions’ part precipitated an unavoidable strike.

    <big>it appears demonstrable that the three-day strike not only brought KP to re-engage in contract talks, but to KP agree to terms closer to the unions’ original demands that KP earlier rejected.</big>

     Union members voting on the agreement made by their bargaining team began on Oct. 18 and should conclude by Nov. 3. If ratified, the contract start date will be retroactively effective to October 1, starting where the previous contract had expired.

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KGW8.com — Oct 20 KP Oregon and Washington imaging workers to join pharmacy technicians on the picket line early November

Kaiser Permanente imaging workers will join pharmacy technicians in a strike protesting “unfair labor practices” beginning in November. [Imagining workers include those who work in services such as X-ray, mammography, MRI, CT, sonographers and radiation therapists.]

Last week, Kaiser Permanente had reached a breakthrough in negotiations with the 75,000 workers who staged a three-day strike across Oregon, Washington, California, Colorado, Virginia and Washington D.C. However, the tentative deal did not cover a separate group of Oregon and Southeast Washington pharmacy technicians who are undertaking their own strike.

At the time, imaging workers had not joined them because they were on a separate contract that had not expired. That contract, however, ends Nov. 1 — and thus, they are now able to take action.

United Food and Commercial Workers Union (UFCW) Local 555 informed Kaiser Permanente of the imaging workers’ strike Thursday, according to a statement from the union. They will begin striking on Nov. 1 at 6 a.m. and will end Nov. 18 at 3 p.m., according to Miles Eshaia of UFCW Local 555.

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<small>213-item CUMULATIVE BIBLIOGRAPHY TO DATE</small>

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  2. kgw8 — Oct 20, 2023 — KP Oregon and Washington imaging workers to join pharmacy technicians on the picket line early November
  3. TheConversation.com — Oct 19, 2023 — Health care workers gain 21% wage increase in pending agreement with Kaiser Permanente after historic strike
  4. nwpb.org — Oct 18, 2023 — Under pressure from Public Employee Benefit Board and School Employee Benefit Board, KPermanente of Washington [state] lifts onerous FIRST FILL Rx mailorder requirement.
  5. SacramentoBusinessJournal — Oct 18, 2023 — Kaiser Permanente’s Natomas facility still undeveloped after 18 months.
  6. CalMatters | Espanol — Oct 17, 2023 — Nueva ley de California aumenta el salario mínimo a 25 dólares para los trabajadores del sector de la salud  █ CalMatters | English New California law raises minimum wage to $25 for health care workers  
  7. PressDemocrat — Oct 17, 2023 — Kaiser Permanente unions went on strike twice in 12 months. The latest walkout led to a ‘historic’ deal

    [showing] labor’s power in California.

  8. seiu-uhw.org/ — Oct 13, 2023 More Than 85,000 Kaiser Permanente Healthcare Workers Win Landmark New Contract

  9. cnn.com… business — Oct 13, 2023 — Union workers reach a tentative deal with Kaiser Permanente after the largest-ever US health care strike    
  10. twitter.com/seiu_uhw — Oct 13, 2023 — Tentative agreement reached.VICTORY.Respect and value.
  11. kaiserpermanente | About — Oct 13, 2023 — New 4-year agreement with the Coalition of Kaiser Permanente Unions
  12. healthcaredive.com — Oct 13, 2023 — After multiple 36-hour bargaining sessions, Kaiser Permanente and unions present a deal to workers
  13. FierceHealthcare — Oct 17, 2023 — Kaiser Permanente accepts $200M settlement after investigation reveals ‘several’ behavioral care deficiencies
  14. CalMatters.org — Oct 12, 2023 — Kaiser agrees to $200 million settlement over California mental health delays  
  15. TheConversation.com — Oct 5, 2023 — Why are tens of thousands of Kaiser health care workers on strike? 5 questions answered
  16. unioncoalition.org/ — Sep 30, 2023 — KP Union Coalition National Agreement set to expire at midnight without an agreement
  17. COALITION OF KAISER PERMANENTE UNIONS — Aug 25, 2023
  18. SpectrumNews — Aug 25, 2023 unions are seeking higher pay and improved staffing
  19. youtube.com — Aug 25, 2023 Coalition Unions Announce Strike Votes Because of Kaiser’s Bad Faith Bargaining & ULPs
  20. MarketWatch — Aug 25, 2023 85,000 Kaiser Permanente healthcare workers are set to take a strike vote
  21. LosAngelesTimes — Aug 24, 2023 Tens of thousands of Kaiser healthcare employees to vote on possible strike
  22. TheHill Aug 24, 2023 — “[it] would be the largest strike in US history”
  23. SacramentoBee Aug 24, 2023 — 88,000 Kaiser employees, about 40% of the company’s workforce, will vote on whether to strike
  24. beckershospitalreview.com/ — Aug 17, 2023 Former Kaiser Medical Group CEO has concerns about Risant Health [a new nonprofit organization created by Kaiser Foundation Hospitals]
  25. Healthcaredive.com — Aug 7, 2023 KP posted a $2.1billion profit in the second quarter of 2023.
  26. UnionCoalition.org — Aug 2, 2023 Coalition Unions Make Full Economic Proposal, Kaiser Permanente Management Refuses to Respond
  27. Kaiser Permanente | About July 26, 2023 [65% staff vacancies filled]
  28. Paddockpost — July 15, 2023 Executive Compensation at Kaiser Health (2020)
  29. unioncoalition.org/ — July 13, 2023 Bargaining session 4 update: Kaiser “you’re overpaid.”
  30. kaiserpermanente.org/ KP Demographics
  31. BeckersHospRev — June 6, 2023 Kaiser workers ask California hospital to halt surgeries over equipment contamination concerns “More than 70 employees at Kaiser Zion Medical Center in San Diego have signed a petition for the facility to suspend surgeries over concerns of potential contamination of surgical trays [by] ‘black/gray/brown particles of an unknown substance dusting the interiors’ as well as ‘black greasy smears of a known, but not surgically-approved substance.’ …In a statement to the news outlet, Kaiser underscored its commitment to ‘safe, quality and timely care,…’”
  32. sfchronicle.com — May 18, 2023 State appeals court reinstates mental health discrimination suit against Kaiser; Kaiser Permanente has been fined by the state of California for its treatment [of mentally ill patients. Now the courts…
  33. law360.com — May 16, 2023 Kaiser Foundation Health Plan will pay $140,000 to a lab worker who said she endured a racially hostile workplace for months
  34. bizjournals.com/Seattle  — May 16, 2023 Kaiser Permanente settles racial harassment suit stemming from Tacoma medical center
  35. modernhealthcare.com — May 15, 2023 Kaiser, Geisinger deal may spur hospital consolidation, pressuring other Pennsylvania systems to expand so they can compete.
  36. Healthcaredive.com — May 8, 2023 KP posts $1.2B in Q1 net profit
  37. fierce healthcare.com — May 5, 2023 Kaiser Permanente bounces back with $1.2B gain, 0.9% operating margin in Q1 2023
  38. about.kaiserpermanente.org…2023-financials — May 5, 2023
  39. Becker’sHospitalReview — May 5, 2023 Kaiser posts $233M operating profit in Q1, health plan adds 120,000 members
  40. Medscape — May 4, 2023 Kaiser Permanente Acquires Geisinger Health in $5 Billion Mega-Deal
  41. statnews.com — Apr 30, 2023 New mega-deal highlights Geisinger’s fall, and raises concerns about where Kaiser is going next
  42. courthousenews.com — Apr 27, 2023 A California appeals court found evidence Kaiser intentionally underfunds mental health care, raising a triable issue as to whether “it intentionally discriminates against patients with certain mental illnesses.”
  43. medcitynews.com — Apr 26, 2023 Kaiser Permanente to Acquire Geisinger, Along with 5-6 More Health Systems in the Near Future
  44. healthcaredive.com — Apr 26, 2023 Kaiser Permanente to acquire Geisinger, form company to operate other nonprofit systems
  45. fiercehealthcare.com — Apr 26, 2023 Kaiser Permanente to acquire Geisinger Health in bid to launch multisystem VBC platform [wikipedia – “Value Based Care/health Care”
  46. abc7.com/ — Apr 25, 2023 Pasadena approves purchase of decade-vacant Kaiser Permanente building to use as affordable housing site The city will soon host community input meetings on the project. [Federal stimulus funds will be used to buy the property for up-to $12 million. KP member fees are the presumed source of the original purchase and development of the property by KP; no information on whether the up-to-$12million will be returned to KP members in some form; KP periodicially claims to invest in “affordable” housing (definition varies depending on who’s using it) in various locales where it has a presence, it’s presence in Pasadena is as the central administration hub of KP’s Southern California service region, yet apparently no affordable housing concerns on KP’s part there.)
  47. abc7 — Apr 21, 2023 Kaiser Santa Rosa reintroduces masking requirements after hospital COVID-19 outbreak — more than a dozen of its 3,500 staff members, along with some patients, have tested positive for COVID-19.
  48. unioncoalition.org/2022-psp/ — April 2023 — Kaiser’s high spending on contract labor and loss in investments keeps 2022 PSP out of the hands of frontline workers
  49. lookout.co/santacruz — Apr 3, 2023 — In the Public Interest: Examining Kaiser’s deal with Santa Cruz County As a closed system, Kaiser may actually limit access to low-income and underinsured residents, and also cause financial harm to other local health care providers.
  50. SantaCruzLocal — Mar 24, 2023 Kaiser to dedicate 2% of Santa Cruz revenue to local “charity care” and community benefits. State law requires hospitals to offer essentially free or discounted care to uninsured patients who earn up to 400% of the federal poverty level, and federal law requires nonprofit hospitals to do similar as well, but some are failing to offer legally-mandated financial aid to eligible patients, California Attorney General Rob Bonta wrote in a statement in June….Tuesday, county supervisors are expected to consider a proposed agreement between the county and Kaiser where Kaiser money toward charity care and community benefits can be spent on: ■ Unpaid care for non-Kaiser patients. ■ Grants to health nonprofits that address the county’s health needs. ■ Care for uninsured low-income patients ■ Recruitment of Kaiser physicians who will accept Medi-Cal and other low income patients. Counties across the state have struggled to recruit and retain doctors who accept Medi-Cal, Morales said. Medi-Cal typically reimburses doctors for care at far lower rates than commercial insurance providers. The agreement also “incentivizes Kaiser to provide care to Medi-Cal patients,” said Mónica Morales, director of the Santa Cruz County Health Services Agency.…
  51. HawaiiPublicRadio — Feb 23, 2023 Kaiser Permanente mental health employees return to work after a 172-day strike
  52. MauiNews — Feb 20, 2023 — After walking picket lines for nearly six months, Kaiser Permanente mental health clinicians in Hawaii accept a new contract agreement, bringing the strike to an end. Years of fruitless negotiations over pay and under-staffing had led psychologists, social workers, psychiatric nurses and chemical dependency counselors going on strike on Aug. 29, 2022.
  53. WhitmanCountyGazette — Feb 16, 2023 Kaiser Permanente policy change restricts medication availability in Colfax
  54. fiercehealthcare.com — Feb 13, 2023 Kaiser Permanente posts $4.5B net loss in 2022, driven by rising costs, INVESTMENT LOSSES
  55. khq.com — Feb 8, 2023 Colfax, Washington KP patients say a new rule that took effect this year limits where and how their prescriptions can be filled.
  56. buyoutsinsider.com — Feb 7, 2023 A whale in the market: Kaiser Permanente shops $6bn portfolio.
  57. DenverPost — Feb 3, 2023 7,600 Kaiser Permanente customers in Colorado to get refunds following software update that made them overpay, by throwing off deductible calculations
  58. PRWire — Feb 1, 2023 DALLAS  BenefitMall, the leading provider of next-generation broker services, today announced an expansion of its relationship with Kaiser Permanente to serve as a general agency in California beginning today.BenefitMall has served as a general agency for Kaiser Permanente in Colorado, Georgia, and the Mid-Atlantic for more than 10 years.
  59. kptv.com — Jan 13, 2023 Healthcare workers flooded the streets near Kaiser Permanente Sunnyside Medical Center, not not on strike but voicing concern about longterm staffing shortages harmful to patients and workers alike.
  60. koin.com/news — Jan 9, 2023 Nurses in Oregon and Southwest Washington set to picket Kaiser Permanente’s Sunnyside Medical Center on Jan. 13 to protest long-ongoing staffing crisis pre-dating the pandemic; hazardous working conditions, patients endangered.
  61. fiercehealthcare.com — Dec 5, 2022 Potential largest RN strike in US history averted: 21,000 Northern California nurses and nurse practitioners won new Kaiser Permanente 4-year contract including upgrades to Kaiser’s personal protective equipment stockpile, workplace violence prevention commitments, tuition reimbursement for education, 22.5% raise over four years, addition of more than 2,000 new registered nurse and nurse practitioner positions to address understaffing, and a regional Equity, Diversity and Inclusion Committee to address systemic racism within the health care system on behalf of patients and staff — “long past due.”
  62. healthcareitnews.com — Nov 22, 2022 Electronic health records of more than 8,500 individuals breached by unauthorized Kaiser Permanente employee
  63. btlawnews — Nov 17, 2023 Court rules U.S.’ Medicare Advantage Suit Against Kaiser Permanente May Move Forward “The government alleges that Kaiser violated the False Claims Act (FCA) by submitting inaccurate diagnosis codes via addenda for its Medicare Advantage Plan enrollees in an effort to increase patients’ risk scores and, as a result, receive higher reimbursements….”
  64. nationalnursesunited.org- Nov 10, 2022 Northern California Kaiser RNs to hold one of the largest private-sector nurses strikes ever —

    California Nurses Association/National Nurses United

  65. SFGate — Sep. 2, 2022 California regulators launch investigation into Kaiser’s mental health care during strike
  66. kron4.com — Sept 1, 2022 Bay Area Kaiser nurses picket for safety
  67. sacobserver.com — Aug 31, 2022 Black Doctors March to the Kaiser Permanente Bernard J. Tyson School of Medicine Shine Spotlight on Institutionalized Racism; Some at the rally are in litigation against Kaiser,
  68. BeckersHospitalReview.com — August 30th, 2022 Lawsuit accuses Kaiser Permanente medical school of of racial discrimination for the second time since opening in summer 2020
  69. healthcaredive.com — Aug 29, 2022 California probes Kaiser over enrollee access to mental health
  70. BeckersHospitalReview — Aug 29th, 2022 Kaiser mental health workers’ strike expands to Hawaii
  71. staradvertiser.com 29 August 2022 Kaiser mental health therapists in Hawaii launch second strike.
  72. HawaiiNewsNow.com — Aug 28, 2022 Grappling with staffing shortages, Kaiser’s mental health professionals go on strike
  73. National Union of Healthcare Workers — Aug 25, 2022 Kaiser Permanente Mental Health Clinicians in Hawai’i to Start Open-Ended Strike Monday, Aug. 29,
  74. KQED Aug 20, 2022 ‘We’re Drowning’: Why Kaiser Mental Health Workers Are Striking. [Staff turnover is high due to impossible working conditions.]
  75. khn.org — Aug 19, 2022 Kaiser Permanente Staff Strike Spreads To Hawaii
  76. PressEnterprise.com —  August 16, 2022 Kaiser Permanente plans $1.7 billion hospital, office expansion in Riverside County: New facilities are rising in Riverside, Moreno Valley, Murrieta and Wildoma
  77. TheGuardian — 15 Aug 2022 ‘Patients are getting ripped off’: California’s mental health workers go on strike
  78. Healthline — Jul 18, 2022 No-Bid [Medicaid] Contract for Kaiser Permanente Is Now [California state] Law, but Key Details Are Missing
  79. Healthline — Apr 18, 2022  Battle Lines Are Drawn Over California [Medicaid] Deal With Kaiser Permanente.“ California counties, health insurance plans, community clinics, and a major national health care labor union are lining up against a controversial deal to grant HMO giant Kaiser Permanente a no-bid statewide Medi-Cal contract as the bill heads for its first legislative hearing Tuesday. The deal, hammered out earlier this year in closed-door talks between Kaiser Permanente and Gov. Gavin Newsom’s office and first reported by KHN, would allow KP to operate Medi-Cal plans in at least 32 counties without having to bid for the contracts. Medi-Cal’s other eight commercial health plans must compete for their contracts.    

    Medi-Cal is California’s version of Medicaid, the federal-state program that provides health coverage to low-income people.Opponents of the KP proposal say they were blindsided by it after having spent months planning for big changes happening in Medi-Cal, which serves more than 14 million Californians. They say the deal would largely allow KP to continue picking the enrollees it wants, and they fear that would give it a healthier and less expensive patient population than other health plans. Currently, the state allows KP to limit its Medi-Cal membership by accepting only those who have been its members in the recent past, primarily in employer-based or Affordable Care Act plans, and their immediate family members…. “A closed system that excludes vulnerable populations is inequitable,” the heads of 10 county boards said in a letter to Assembly member Jim Wood (D-Santa Rosa), who chairs the Assembly Health Committee, which will consider the proposal….

  80. www.kff.org/ — Apr 4, 2022 — Nursing Facility Staffing Shortages During the COVID-19 Pandemic

  81. jclis.com/affordable-health-insurance/a-brief-overview-of-kaiser-permanente-in-2022/ — Mar 31, 2022 Nine million [Kaiser Permanente members statewide] … close to a quarter of all Californians.

  82. fiercehealthcare.com — Feb 14, 2022 Kaiser Permanente reports $8.1B net profit in 2021 despite shrinking operating income
  83. fiercehealthcare — Feb 7, 2022 California inks sweetheart deal with Kaiser Permanente, jeopardizing Medicaid reforms
  84. latimes.com — Feb 6, 2022 Kaiser gets a special healthcare deal with California. Are Medicaid reforms in jeopardy?
  85. calmatters.org/ — Feb 4, 2022 California’s no-bid [Medicaid] contract with Kaiser triggers concerns
  86. NATIONAL NURSES UNITED.org — Nov 4, 2021 National Nurses United condemns industry plans to maximize profit by sending patients home all alone, replacing 24/7 hands-on nursing care with technology “Registered nurses have a legal and moral obligation to always advocate for the best interests of our patients. That is why we are completely opposed to Kaiser Permanente’s current and long-term plans to maximize revenue by dramatically limiting opportunities for nurses to care for patients in a hospital setting, and instead sending patients home to be remotely monitored by technology. In a program that Kaiser calls “Advanced care at home…”
  87. abc7news.com — September 30, 2021 Hundreds of striking Kaiser engineers rally in the streets of Oakland
  88. timesofsandiego.com —October 21, 2021 Kaiser Permanente Pharmacy and Lab Workers Authorize Strike in Southern California  
  89. oaklandnorth.net — October 21, 2021 UPDATE: Kaiser Permanente meets with striking engineers and mediators
  90. hawaiinewsnow.com — Oct. 21, 2021 Kaiser healthcare workers vote in favor of strike after failed contract negotiations
  91. stateofreform.com/ — Oct 21, 2021 Kaiser Permanente health care workers prepare strike vote in Hawaii and California
  92. jacobinmag.com — Oct 20, 2021 Kaiser Wants to Cut Health Care Workers’ Wages. It Might Provoke a Massive Strike.
  93. LaborNotes 19oct2021 Kaiser’s Outrageous Two-Tier Wage Proposal May Provoke a Massive Strike
  94. kovi.com 18oct2021 Kaiser Permanente Strike Votes Expand to Hawaii and Northern California
  95. sacbee.com 18oct2021Surgery delays at Kaiser Roseville frustrate patient who pays ‘good money for insurance’
  96. northbaybusinessjournal.com 17oct2021 Sonoma County affordable housing efforts to receive over $2.5 million in grants from Kaiser Permanente
  97. denvergazette.com 15oct2021 Colorado health care worker union sues Kaiser Permanente, alleging company ignored chronic understaffing
  98. fox40.com 14oct2021 ‘They offered 11 cents more ‘
  99. sacbee.com 14oct2021Kaiser Roseville health care workers to protest staffing: ‘We are at our limit’
  100. AP 12oct2021 Kaiser Permanente faces strike votes in California, Oregon.
  101. OregonLive 12oct2021 Big majority of Oregon, SW Washington Kaiser Permanente employees approve strike
  102. thehill.com 12oct2021 Kaiser Permanente workers authorize strikes in California, Oregon
  103. sacramento.newsreview.com 12oct2021 Kaiser Permanente strike standoff in Sacramento area
  104. LosAngelesTimes 11oct2021 Kaiser Permanente workers vote to authorize strike, citing staffing and safety concerns
  105. washingtonpost 11oct2021 24,000 Kaiser Permanente health workers authorize strike over pay, working conditions
  106. nurse.org/ 8oct2021 Kaiser Permanente Nurses Prepare to Strike Nationwide
  107. capitalandmain.com 8oct2021 Kaiser Permanente Employees May Strike Over Two-Tier Pay System
  108. streetroots.org 5oct2021 Thousands of [Oregon] Kaiser workers on the verge of strike
  109. WorldSocialistWebsite.org 4Oct2021 Northern California Sutter health care workers join Kaiser Permanente engineers on strike
  110. healthcaredive.com 1oct2021 Kaiser Permanente union in California nearing strike
  111. healthcaredive.com 10aug2021 Kaiser Permanente’s Q2 profit down one-third despite revenue climb
  112. fiercehealthcare.com 10may2021 Kaiser Permanente generates $2B profit for Q1
  113. fontanaheraldnews.com — Oct 5, 2020 — staff member at Kaiser Permanente facility in Fontana tests positive for COVID-19, county says
  114. National Union of Healthcare Workers/NUHW.org— September 2020 Hospital Corporation Government Bailout Tally update.
  115. florence-health.com/ — Sep 29, 2020 — Health is the heart of the economy: KP pledges to consider ‘hero bonus” asked by KP Unions in California, Colorado, Hawaii, Maryland, Oregon, Virginia, Washington, D.C. and Washington state
  116. beckershospitalreview.com — Sep 28, 2020 — Coalition of KP worker unions seek ‘hero bonus’ for 85,000 members
  117. mauinews.com — Sep 25, 2020 — Contrary to union contracts Kaiser shutdown of gastrointestinal and ambulatory surgeries at clinic costs workers jobs & patients some access: services being transferred to operating rooms at Maui Memorial Medical Center, operated by a Kaiser affiliate, despite ↷
  118. https://wa-business.kaiserpermanente.org/kaiser-permanente-CARES-act-funding/ including $11.8 million for Maui Health System, a nonprofit subsidiary of Kaiser Foundation Hospitals.
  119. dailyrecordnews.com — Sep 23, 2020 — Kittitas Valley Healthcare, Kittitas County, Washington’s only hospital, terminates contract vith KP effect July 2021 after years of difficulties for its members.
  120. opensecrets.org – the Center for Responsive Politics — 2020 — Lobbying Firm Profile: Kaiser Foundation Health Plan: Federal Bills Lobbied by Kaiser Foundation Health Plan, 2020
  121. Healthcaredive.com — Aug 10, 2020 — Kaiser Permanente reports $4.5B in net income, joining other operators in large Q2 increases
  122. queenannenews.com — July 22, 2020 — KP pledges $500,000+ to meal service for it senior members & other seniors in Washington state.
  123. Healthcaredive.com — June 23, 2020 — 2nd in a series examining the bailout funds health systems received amid the COVID-19 pandemic.
  124. World Socialist Web Site.org — Jun 15, 2020 — Nurses outraged over US hospital chain bailouts, layoffs and bloated CEO pay
  125. NewYorkTimes — Jun 8, 2020 — Dozens of top recipients of government aid have laid off, furloughed or cut the pay of tens of thousands of employees while paying CEOs millions.
  126. bizjournals.com/sanfranciscobusinesstimes —  Jun 5, 2020 — Greg Adams, CEO, KP
  127. JOHNS HOPKINS.edu COVID-19 DASHBOARD
  128. kff.org (not affiliated with KaiPerm) — May 13, 2020 — hospitals serving wealthier patients have received far more funding than those that treat low-income patients
  129. HealthcareDive.com — May 11, 2020 — Kaiser reports $1.1B net loss in Q1 due to stock market slide
  130. USAToday — May 10/11, 2020 — Rich hospitals, poor safety plans leading up to coronavirus: Should rules change for them now?
  131. ColeMarketResearch — May 11, 2020 —  Impact of COVID-19 Outbreak on Recent Edition of Pension Insurance Market 2020 | Key Companies Overview- UnitedHealthcare, Allianz, Kaiser Permanente, MetLife,CNP Assurances, PICC, ICICI Prulife , Ping An, China Life
  132. May 8, 2020 — Kaiser Foundation Health Plan and Hospitals Q1 2020 Financia  UPDATE with mission comment and thanks to its workers.
  133. HealthcareDive.com — Mar 25, 2020 — Kaiser Permanente shelves $900M headquarters build
  134. fiercehealthcare.com — Mar 25, 2020 — Kaiser Permanente pulls the plug on planned $900M Oakland headquarters
  135. modernhealthcare.com  — Mar 16, 2020 — KP Pledges $1million to treat homeless for COVID-19
  136. kff.org/policy-watch — Mar 31, 2020 — A Look at the $100 Billion for Hospitals in the $2trillion CARES Act
  137. climaterwc.com — Apr 23, 2020 — Rotary Club of Redwood City pledges weekly donations to feed hospital heroes & community essential workers.
  138. kff.org — Apr 9, 2020 — The Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act: Summary of Key Health Provisions
  139. verywellhealth.com — Feb 23, 2020 — Healthcare Capitation
  140. beckershospitalreview.com/ — Feb 20, 2020 — KP pledges $32m to fight housing insecurity in Sacramento, California’s state capital.
  141. fontanaheraldnews.com — Jan 18, 2020 — KP pledges $25million to help state homeless project.
  142. www.prnewswire.com — jan 17, 2020 — KP pledges $25m to governor’s California Housing fund
  143. beckershospitalreview.com/ — Jan 16, 2020 — [1] KP $200million Thriving Communities Fund buys $5.2mil housing complex near its Oakland HQ [2] KP & Enterprise Community Partners launch $100 million loan fund for affordable housing [3] KP & community partners announce effort for housing & services for 500 over-age-50 chronically ill Oakland denizens.
  144. fiercehealthcare.com — Jan 9, 2020 — Per the 2019 labor agreement reached by KP and the Service Employees International Union-United Healthcare Workers West (SEIU-UHW), new joint nonprofit Futuro Health created to train and graduate 10,000 new licensed and credentialed allied health workers in California by 2024.
  145. SanFranciscoCBS  — Dec 17, 2019 —  Kaiser Permanente Mental Health Workers Strike For 2nd Day
  146. BizJournals.com — Dec 13, 2019 — 4,000 California Kaiser mental health workers will strike Monday
  147. BizJournals.com — Dec 11/13, 2019 — 5 things to know about Kaiser’s new CEO Greg Adams
  148. HealthcareDive.com — Dec 11, 2019 — Kaiser interim chief Greg Adams named full-time CEO
  149. Cision PR Newswire — Dec 5, 2019 Kaiser Permanente Ventures closes Fund V with $141 million in total capital
  150. beckershospitalreview.com — Oct 9, 2019 — Kaiser Permanente pledges $2.75M to study childhood trauma effects
  151. Oct 2019 Last known posting by Kaiser Permanente Thrive — Exposed KP: Failure to Thrive – A Managed Care Watch Web Site following malicious hacking of the site.
  152. Oct 2019 About the CDC-Kaiser ACE Study and www.cdc.gov/violenceprevention/aces/fundedresearch.html
  153. HealthcareDive.com — Sept 25, 2019 — Kaiser strike called off as company, unions reach tentative agreement
  154. opb.org — Sept 27, 2019 — Biggest Strike US Has Seen In Years Poised To Hit Kaiser Permanente
  155. HealthcareFinanceNews.com — Sept 16, 2019 — Kaiser Permanente and Enterprise are investing in affordable housing — referencing HealthcarefinanceNews.com — July 5, 2018 — ROI from social determinants investment inc’g housing homeless patients.  
  156. HealthcareDive.com — Sept 13, 2019 — Colorado union votes to strike at Kaiser, bringing ‘yes’ votes nationwide to 42K
  157. goodjobsfirst.org VIOLATION TRACKER: 57 KP workplace violation records and $38,657,920 in penalties on KP between 2000 and Sept 2018.
  158. HealthcareDive.com — Sept 6, 2019 — Starting in 2020, profit-soaring Kaiser loses California non-profit privilege of minimal expense & revenue breakdown. Another bill, requiring nonprofit health systems to report more on executive and physician compensation is wending its way thru’ state legislature.
  159. SacramentoBee — Sept 6, 2019 — Newsom signs [bill requiring Kaiser to disclose more financial data] — consumer group Health Access California, SEIU and the California Public Employees’ Retirement System, and business groups such as Small Business Majority were among other supporters of the bill. “..As part of the legislation, Kaiser will have to break out expenses and revenue for each of its facilities; break out revenue by type of payor (Medicare, Medi-Cal or private insurance) at each facility; and break out rate increases by type of service (hospital, physician services, pharmacy, radiology and laboratory).
           “We think it’s an important transparency measure,” said Anthony Wright, the executive director of Health Access California. “Right now, we do require rate review of our insurers, and Kaiser has had a fairly broad exemption from much of the rate review processes that other insurers have to follow, and what this bill does is fairly simple. It ensures Kaiser is providing the same types of information justifying their rates as other health insurers have to do…”
  160. California Senate Bill 343 — Sept 5, 2019 — Health care data disclosure: California state insurance code amendments.
  161. NW Labor Presss.org — Sept 5, 2019 — Massive Kaiser Permanente strike could come in October
  162. American Prospect — Sept 3, 2019 — Kaiser Hospital Workers Mobilize for Largest Strike in Two Decades
  163. HealthcareDive.com — Aug. 29, 2019 — Kaiser Permanente workers are set to strike. Does it mark a new trend?
  164. CBSNews — Aug. 27, 2019 — Bill Targeting Kaiser Permanente Financial Disclosures Heads To Gov. Newsom’s Desk
  165. cpr.org — Aug 26, 2019 — If Kaiser Permanente Votes To Strike, Thousands Of Workers Would Walk Out From The Colorado Health Care Giant
  166. San Diego Reader — 26 August 2019 — Kaiser to face largest strike anywhere in 20 years — Unions claim company made $5.2 billion in profits the first 6 months of 2019.
  167. danilfineman.com — Aug 22, 2019 — Kaiser mortgage to rehab Metropolis Heights reasonably priced houses
  168. LA Times — Aug 12, 2019 — Kaiser Permanente workers in California vote to approve strike
  169. HealthcareDive.com — Aug 12, 2019 [2nd quarter of 2019] KP net income $2 billion, up from 2018 2nd Qtr $653 million.
  170. SEIU-UHW (union) Aug 9, 2019 Kaiser Claims Its Employees Make Too Much Even as It Rakes in $5.2 Billion in First Half of 2019 [KP sits on more than $35 billion in reserves, CEO gets $16 million a year]
  171. Medscape — August 2, 2019 — Docs Get Tiny Raises While Nonprofit Healthcare CEOs get >$10M
  172. Wikipedia — KaiserPermanente as of July 2019.
  173. ABCNews — July 20, 2019 Oakland City Council approves $28mill sale to KP of public parking garage
  174. Forbes — Jul 12, 2019 — 85,000 KP Health Workers Threaten Strike 
  175. ABCNews — July 10, 2019 — Kaiser mental health workers strike in San Francisco, demand more staffing for patients
  176. ABC7 — July 10, 2019 — Oakland approves sale of city-owned [public] garage for Kaiser HQ
  177. Medscape — July 5, 2019 — Are Exorbitant Corporate Salaries in Healthcare Unethical?
  178. HealthcarefinanceNews.com — July 5, 2018 ROI from social determinants investment inc’g housing homeless patients.  
  179. SanFranciscoChronicle — June 23, 2019 — KaiserPerm deal for Warriors arena plaza & Chase Center area to be renamed “Thrive City” could hit $295 million.
  180. HealthcareDive.com — June 18, 2019  — Kaiser Permanente announces new headquarters in California
  181. Modern Healthcare — June 17, 2019 — $900million New KP HQ in Oakland
  182. Kaiser Permanente.org — Local ‘markets’ and other “Fast Facts” as of June 2019.
  183. ABCNews — March 11, 2019 — Family speaks out after grandfather told he’s dying by KP doctor video robot.
  184. HealthcareDive.com — [First quarter of 2019] KP net income nearly $3.2 billion compared with about $1.2 billion the prior-year period [following open enrollment seasons].
  185. search — Jan-Aug 2019 RxHomeFund/ThrivingCommunities/…
  186. HeathcareDive.com — [First half of 2018] KP posted nearly $40billion in revenue
  187. National Union of Health Workers — January 7, 2019 Chronology: Kaiser Permanente’s Mental Health Crisis
  188. ProPublica Nonprofit Explorer 2019 — Form 990, Schedule J for KP Fiscal Year Ending Dec 2017.
  189. goodjobsfirst.org WORKPLACE VIOLATION TRACKER – 56 workplace violatIon records and $37,757,920 in penalties on KP, 2000 – 2018.
  190. ABCNews — December 20, 2018 — Thousands of KP’s unionized mental health workers make arrangements to meet patient needs for the week before walking out on strike.
  191. ModernHealthcare.com — Dec 20, 2018 — KP settles in 2014 patient class action lawsuit.
  192. TheBusinessJournals.com — Nov 14, 2018 — Hospitals and health systems with highest-paid leaders…
  193. ABCNews — September 3, 2018 — Over 1,000 Kaiser employees and their unions and supporters marched in Oakland to protest planned job cuts and outsourcing.
  194. HealthcareDive.com — Aug. 24, 2018 — KP reported $39.9billion in operating revenue for the first six months of 2018
  195. HealthcareDive.com — April 30, 2018 — 55,000 member SEIU-UHW protests KP layoffs & outsourcing of pharmacy warehouse & call center operations.
  196. ABCNews — September 18, 2017 — Kaiser nurses rally for better resources for patients at 21 California locations as contract end approaches and negotiations drag on.
  197. HealthcareDive.com — August 31, 2017 — NorthBay Healthcare’s 2nd Lawsuit vs Kaiser Permanente for underpayment on Emergency Department care.
  198. ABCNews — July 12, 2015 — Thousands of Kaiser mental health professionals strike for better resouces after 5 years of contract negotiations fail to remedy dearth from increased patient ‘memberships’.
  199. medscape.com — July 5, 2017 — Despite three warnings and a multimillion-dollar fine a few years ago, Kaiser Permanente still fails to provide members with appropriate access to mental health care,
  200. Los Angeles Daily News — March 26, 2015 — CalState Student wins $28.2mil KP lawsuit for negligence causing loss of leg, half pelvis & parts of spine.
  201. opensecrets.org — Center for Responsive Politics — 2015 — Lobbying Firm Profile: Kaiser Foundation Health Plan: Federal Bills Lobbied in 2015
  202. medscape.com — Feb 25, 2015 — For 2nd time in 2 years, the state of California faults HMO giant KP on failing access to patients for mental health care
  203. ABCNews — Jan 26, 2015 — KaiserPerm averts strike by tentative agreement w/ California Nurses Association/National Nurses United for 18,000 employees’ 3-year contract: “…The nurses claimed Kaiser was cutting back on its patient care standards by decreasing hospital services, making restrictions on admitting patients for hospital care and discharging patients early though they needed further hospitalization, according to the CNA.
             “[Also] that Kaiser provided them with insufficient resources, equipment and training that put nurses and patients at risk.”
  204. PressDemocrat — January 10, 2015 — Kaiser braces for strike Monday by mental health clinicians
  205. topclassactions.com — Sept 11, 2014 — Class Action Suit alleges KP tells guardians of psychiatric patient ‘members’ they can only receive care if they cancel KP insurance/“membership & get covered by Medicare & Medi-Cal
  206. Medscape – April 3, 2013 — California Dept of Managed Health Care (DMHC) cites Kaiser Permanente in mental health service cover-up
  207. sportspromedia.com — June 13, 2012 — Golden State Warriors NBA team sponsor Kaiser Permanente becomes naming-rights partner in 3,200-capacity Santa Cruz arena in deal rumored largest ever for NBA’s Developmental League.
  208. HuffingtonPost — November 14, 2011 — Kaiser Permanente Makes Billions In Profits While Overburdening Staff: Report “Kaiser Permanente has made an estimated $5.7 billion in profit since 2009.”
  209. AMA Journal of Ethics — January 2009 — elderly patient suffering from dementia, in nothing but a hospital gown, ‘dropped off’ by Kaiser Permanente Bellflower Medical Center at Union Rescue Mission, an organization that serves the needy and homeless
  210. npr.org — November 2006 — Kaiser Faces Charges for [literally] Dumping Homeless Patient [on skid row].
  211. kaiserthrive.org  — April 2006 — Kaiser Permanente sued for lack of disabled accommodations.
  212. kaiserthrive.org — March 2006 — Patient Dumping on skid row said caught on tape.
  213. lmpartnership.org — 1997 Labor Management Partnership Agreement between Kaiser Permanente and the Coalition of Kaiser Permanente Unions


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