Kaiser is both an insurance company and a healthcare system in Washington and other states

The current regions are - Washington, Oregon, Southern California, Northern California, Colorado, Georgia, Maryland, Hawaii, Virginia and the District of Columbia.

Only California has Kaiser owned hospitals, the other regions contact with hospitals in those areas. Each region is semi autonomous with slight differences in general policies. Although regions are now being paired up with "sister regions", for example Colorado and Washington State are now linked together but somehow are still technically separate. Don't ask I can't figure it out either.

Kaiser is essentially 2 companies. In Colorado for example, the Physicians are in a group called CPMG (Colorado Permanente Medical Group) which is a for-profit company. The public face of Kaiser has non-profit status. The doctors contract with the non-profit side.

Kaiser as a whole isn't the saintly company they pretend to be. They're the the same group that were dumping people off on skid row in California after all. They were forced to leave Texas because of multiple deaths and multiple law suits. Their care is substandard, quite often it's linked to "protocols" that go against what other medical providers consider necessary and reasonable. I can tell you that it is extremely difficult to get proper care, the more expensive the procedure the more Kaiser will do to delay treatment as long as possible. When total knee replacements are considered to be elective there's a problem. Anything that will save them money and get them higher quality ratings (Forbes etc) they'll do without question. Other procedures, unless it's cancer or cardiac issues for example, well good luck.

We have no way of knowing what is in the medical records that are linked to this lawsuit, my guess is she'll stop the proceedings just before discovery or when KP opts to settle as they are extremely protective of their sunshine unicorns and rainbows image.

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