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Website Features New Search, Integration of Content by Key Topics, Design for Mobile Devices MENLO PARK, Calif., May 6, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Kaiser Family Foundation today announced the launch of an all new kff.org, the Foundation's popular web destination for its health policy information. The new kff.org has been designed to fit the way people currently access and consume online information, and is built on an open-source platform that can rapidly evolve to...

OAKLAND, Calif., April 2, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- For the third year in a row, Kaiser Permanente will receive the Pharmacy Quality Alliance's annual Quality Award, an honor that recognizes health plans achieving excellence in medication safety and quality. Kaiser Permanente's health plans in California are the winners this year, and they will receive the award at PQA's annual meeting on May 29. In 2011, Kaiser Permanente health plans in Colorado and Hawaii were recipients; in 2012,...

OAKLAND, Calif., March 28, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- For the fifth consecutive year, Kaiser Permanente is the only health plan in California to earn a 4-star rating -- the highest possible -- for overall quality of care in the annual Healthcare Quality Report Card from the California Office of the Patient Advocate. Kaiser Permanente in both Northern and Southern California also received 4 stars in the "Patients Rate their HMO" category, which measures members' satisfaction with their...

OAKLAND, Calif., March 18, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Kaiser Permanente announced today that its members in four geographic regions - which serve 8 million of Kaiser Permanente 9 million members - again ranked the organization's health plans highest in satisfaction in the J.D. Power and Associates 2013 Member Health Plan Study(SM). It is the sixth successive year that Kaiser Permanente members in California and Colorado ranked the organization's health plan highest. This is the fifth...

ROCKVILLE, Md., March 14, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Kaiser Permanente of the Mid-Atlantic States announced today that its members have rated the organization's health plan highest in member satisfaction within its region in the J.D. Power and Associates 2013 Member Health Insurance Plan Study(SM). This year's designation marks five consecutive years that Kaiser Permanente of the Mid-Atlantic States has been the highest rated plan in the Mid-Atlantic Region (Maryland, Virginia...

More Americans Back Than Oppose State Medicaid Expansions But, Like Many Governors, Public Splits Along Party Lines On The Federal Deficit, Public Wants Action But Still Resists Most Cuts and Sacrifices, Especially to Medicare WASHINGTON, Jan. 24, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- A majority of Americans put the creation of state-based health insurance exchanges at the top of the priority list for health policy in their state this year, according to a survey released today by the...

New Survey Finds States Investing in Technology, Simplifying Enrollment Processes WASHINGTON, Jan. 23, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Nearly all states are pressing forward with information technology and process improvements to develop faster, streamlined Medicaid enrollment systems as required under the Affordable Care Act (ACA) whether or not the state elects to expand Medicaid coverage under the law, according to a report released today by the Kaiser Family Foundation's...

Survey finds Black and Latino Youth "Very Concerned" about Impact of HIV on Themselves and Others Their Age; Black Youth Most Likely to be Offered and to Get a Test for HIV MENLO PARK, Calif., Nov. 27, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Nearly three times as many Black teens and young adults, and twice as many Latino youth, say HIV/AIDS is an issue that concerns them personally as compared to whites the same age, according to a new Kaiser Family Foundation survey of 15-24 year olds in...

Updated Analysis Provides New Data on Coverage and Cost Impact of the Medicaid Expansion Under The ACA WASHINGTON, Nov. 26, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- A new report released today by the Kaiser Family Foundation shows modest state costs for implementing the Medicaid expansion under the Affordable Care Act compared to significant increases in federal funds, allowing some states to see net budget savings even as millions of low-income uninsured Americans gain health coverage....

DENVER, Nov. 20, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Patients with online access to their medical record, including secure email communication with clinicians, had an associated increase in use of some clinical services, according to new Kaiser Permanente research published this month in the Journal of the American Medical Association. The study examined health records of more than 500,000 Kaiser Permanente members in Colorado between May 2005 and June 2010. The researchers looked at office...