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Nov. 9—Kaiser Permanente workers in Washington have ratified a new contract with large pay increases for nurses and service workers. Workers had been set to strike after their previous contract ...
The health care nonprofit is one of the nation's biggest providers, serving more than 12 million patients per year.
The Kaiser strike is expected to span three days, as healthcare workers join picket lines across the country to protest staffing shortages Kaiser Permanente healthcare strike could disrupt vaccine ...
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The Affordable Care Act (ACA) established the health insurance rate review program in order to protect consumers from unreasonable rate increases. [1] Through this program, proposed premium increases in the small group and individual markets that are above a threshold amount (ten percent or more, as of February 2014) are reviewed by states or the federal government to determine whether the ...
Kaiser Permanente (/ ˈ k aɪ z ər p ɜːr m ə ˈ n ɛ n t eɪ /; KP) is an American integrated managed care consortium headquartered in Oakland, California.Founded in 1945 by industrialist Henry J. Kaiser and physician Sidney R. Garfield, the organization was initially established to provide medical services at Kaiser's shipyards, steel mills and other facilities, before being opened to the ...
Updates to the Medicare physician fee schedule; Setting standards and expectations for safety and quality of diagnostics; Promoting care coordination and patient-centered care by designating a "medical home" that would replace fragmented care with a coordinated approach to care. Physicians would receive a periodic payment for a set of defined ...
Negotiations are expected to continue, but the labor union has threatened a larger strike in November if a new labor deal is not agreed upon.