Kaiser Permanente CEO on Saving Lives, Money. USA Today. October 24, 2012.
In this interview with George Halvorson, chief executive of Kaiser Permanente, the largest managed care company and hospital in the nation, he offers his many interesting observations including:
*Because we are prepaid, we don't make our money by having care go wrong.
*Most of (our competitors)...don't get paid for prevention.
*We buy our surgeons by the month, not by the cut. (Physicians at KP are on salary eliminating any possible incentive for unnecessary surgery).
*We need to stop rewarding the infrastructure of American health care for making mistakes.
Fascinating article about a firm that many view as a model for the future of U.S. medicine.
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