Complaint / Review
Kaiser Permanente Risk Management - Oakland
Patient Abandonment, Violation of Federal and State Elder Abuse Laws, Fraud

"It's our of my hands!"

"Sorry, no medical services today."

"I know you are suffering badly, but our hands are tied!"

"We apologize, but, we can't give you a name to call!"

"The patient has no services, and we can't do anything about it!"

"We know the patient is suffering, but he has been referred to RISK MANAGEMENT, and it's out of our hands. CHECK WITH THEM."

You might think that such statements are coming from a clinic in the middle of the African Savanna, a place where a few doctors every year volunteer their efforts to bring some semblance of health care to people who, for the remainder of the year, suffer the worst survival rates on the planet.

But, you would be wrong.

What you are hearing are physicians working on local Northern California Kaiser Permanente medical campuses describing why patients fully insured under the Kaiser plans are being abandoned to their pain and suffering in favor of having their cases determined by a cadre of anonymous lawyers in Oakland, California, known at the local level, with a wink, as Kaiser's Legal Beagles.