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Kaiser Permanente is a not-for-profit health care insurer and provider. Those who subscribe to any of Kaiser's plans also receive care within the Kaiser system of hospitals and medical offices. As of June 2009, Kaiser operates 35 hospitals and 431 medical offices in nine states. As both an Health Maintenance Organization and a health... more »
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Kaiser Permanente is an integrated managed care organization, based in Oakland, California, United States, founded in 1945 by industrialist Henry Kaiser and physician Sidney Garfield. Kaiser Permanente is a consortium of three distinct groups of entities: the Kaiser Foundation Health Plan and its regional operating subsidiaries, Kaiser Foundation Hospitals, and the autonomous regional Permanente Medical Groups. As of 2006, Kaiser Permanente operates in nine states and the District of Columbia, and is the largest managed care organization in the United States.
Kaiser Permanente has 8.6 million health plan members,kp2008stats /> 167,300 employees,kp2008stats /> 14,600 physicians,kp2008stats /> 35 medical centers,kp2008stats /> 431 medical offices,kp2008stats /> and $1.3 billion in net income on $34.4 billion in operating revenues.autogenerated3 /> The Health Plan and Hospitals operate under state and federal non-profit tax status, while the Medical Groups operate as for-profit partnerships or professional corporations in their respective regions.
Structure and governance
Kaiser Permanente provides care throughout eight regions in the United States. Each of these regions purports that it is comprised of two or three (and, in one case, four) separate but interdependent legal entities. This structure was adopted by Kaiser Permanente physicians and leaders in 1955.
National structure
The two types of organizations which are purported to make up each regional entity are:
* Kaiser Foundation Health Plans work with employers, employees, and individual members to offer prepaid health plans and insurance. The health plans are purported to be not-for-profit and provide infrastructure for and invest in Kaiser Foundation Hospitals a read more at » http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaiser+Permanente
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