OAKLAND, Calif. — When people talk about the future of health care, Kaiser Permanente is often the model they have in mind. The organization, which combines a nonprofit insurance plan with its own ...

Sharon Brandon, 59, watched her cousin and her auntie die in a matter of months. Her beloved mother went in two weeks. Big Mama, the grandmother who famously distrusted doctors, lasted four months.

Integrated models of health plans tend to generate fewer complaints from members, according to a survey prepared by the School of Public Health at the University of California-Berkeley. Conducted for ...

Los Angeles (CNN) — On Wednesday, thousands of unionized health care employees walked off the job after failed contract negotiations with their employer, Kaiser Permanente, a company whose business ...

Kaiser Permanente has so successfully executed its integrated healthcare model that other insurers could benefit from following its lead as health reform is pushes the industry toward further ...

Nothing in the health care debate has sent shivers of fear down my spine like the suggestion that health care cooperatives like Kaiser could serve as the model for the delivery of health care services ...

Many health policy wonks see integrated, fixed-fee providers as a possible good-outcome future of US health care. And to many of these folks, Kaiser Permanente, which combines an insurance plan with ...

Two of the nation’s biggest healthcare providers are betting on the future of healthcare delivered from outside the four walls of the hospital. Rochester, Minn.-based Mayo Clinic and Oakland, ...

Unlike traditional health care providers in the United States, Kaiser operates both as an insurance plan and a provider of all care covered by that plan. Patients (or their employers) pay a membership ...