Feb 12, 2007 | Laboratory Management and Operations, Laboratory News, Laboratory Operations, Laboratory Pathology
Kaiser Permanente has taken the radical step of introducing a new suite of consumer-driven products called Custom Care. This is the first time, since its founding more than 60 years ago, that Kaiser Permenante is offering a health insurance plan that is not based on its staff-model HMO. For lab directors and pathologists, this is an important sign of the steadily-increasing importance of consumer-directed health plans (CDHPs) in the American healthcare marketplace. Kaiser Permanente first...
