Website – https://www.kp.org
Located – Oakland, CA
Phone – 1-800-556-7677
Employees – 169,729
Revenue (bil.) – 34.4
Description – Kaiser Permanente hopes to be a permanent leader in US healthcare. The not-for-profit entity is among the largest integrated healthcare systems in the US. The company offers health care services through a network of nearly 14,000 physicians belonging to Permanente Medical Groups; 32 medical centers and more than 400 medical offices that form the Kaiser Foundation Hospitals; and the Kaiser Foundation Health Plan, which covers some 8.7 million lives (most of which are in California). Kaiser Permanente is primarily bi-coastal, active in California, Colorado, Georgia, Hawaii, Maryland, Ohio, Oregon, Virginia, Washington, and Washington, DC.

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Anonymous’s Full Review of Kaiser Permanente Health Insurance Company

I have read some bad things on Kasier Permanente online, but my experience has been great. Kaiser has really set itself apart from the other health insurance companies. I sleep better at night knowing I’m protected by Kaiser Permanente and highly reccomend it.

Anonymous’s Full Review of Kaiser Permanente Health Insurance Company

The only problem I have with Kaiser Permanente is having inconsistent care with same provider(s). Your care gets juggled around (passed on from one physician or nurse practitioner to another) simply because of their lack of schedule or time. I find myself competing with other patients to be seen by same doctor or practitioner, juggling my work schedule around the schedule of my provider and their available time and day slots just to get consistent care. In my prenatal experience, I’ve only seen my Ob-Gyn physician once or twice throughout the 9 months of checkups.

Anonymous’s Full Review of Kaiser Permanente Health Insurance Company

I am new member to Kaiser Permanente and I did not know that in order to get information on a prescription you had to request it. I left my prescription over the weekend of 12/7 because Kaiser Permanente did not carry the brand I needed. When I received the medication there was no information about the new medication. I was confused because there were 3 medications in the bag when I had given them 2 prescirptions. Tuesday morning I looked up the medication on the internet and learned that two of the medications were for hypertension, one a ACE inhibitor and the other a calcium channel blocker. I was given the two medication because my prescription had no generic and was a combination of 2 effective blood pressure medication in 1 capsule. When I call the pharmacy to inquire why I was not given any information about the new medication, I was told I had to request the information because the person filing the prescription does not know that it is a new prescription.

This is the first time I have received medication from a pharmacy and not received any information about the prescription, especially a precription I have never taken before. The young lady that I spoke with rushed me off the phone, like she did not think my concern was important and I should have requested the information.

I think the policy of Kaiser Permanente should be that all prescription include information about the medication and its side effects, especially if it is a different medication than what was prescribed by the doctor. It is hard for me to believe that no one has mentioned this before, because this is very important informtion that all patients need.

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