Once health care's "good guy," Kaiser Permanente is being investigated for defrauding taxpayers.
The U.S. Department of Justice is looking into claims by whistleblowers that Kaiser Permanente has been systematically defrauding Uncle Sam.
Wendell Potter
56 min ago
Et tu, Kaiser?
I was crestfallen when I read that the U.S. Department of Justice is going after nonprofit Kaiser Permanente for–according to whistleblowers–systematically defrauding taxpayers by doing exactly the same thing that Kaiser’s for-profit peers have been doing–and getting gentle slaps on the wrist for–more many years.
As Axios and Modern Healthcare are reporting, the DOJ has joined six whistleblower complaints alleging that Kaiser “made its Medicare Advantage patients look sicker than they were as a way to obtain more money from the federal government.”
It was sad for me to read that because I had always thought of Kaiser as one of the good guys (relatively speaking) in the health insurance business. Toward the end of my career at Cigna, at a time when I was growing increasingly disenchanted with my work and the industry, I got a call from a recruiter looking to fill the job of VP of Communications at Kaiser.
https://wendellpotter.substack.com/p/kaiser-defrauds-tp
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