“integrated” because it provides all patient services, from aprimary carephysician to hospitalization and pharmacy services. KP has a variety of health plans, from low to high premiums, depending on co-pays (Strandberg-Larsenet al., 2010). KP seems to be highly responsive to the changing ...
Kaiser Foundation Health Plan and Hospitals are integrated with legally separate physician group practices called Permanente Medical Groups. The health plan is the insurance part of the organisation, while the hospitals and medical group provide all clinical services [1, 2]. To the public these ...
and continuing over a treatment period until symptoms disappear and/or significantly subside, typically 4 weeks, 8 weeks or 12 weeks, but also may continue as a prophylactic measure in the long term after symptoms have disappeared or significantly subsided, as determined by the attending physician....