[Chinese Traditional Medicine] on the corner

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It seems to me, and you may see this as well, that many HMOs (I'm especially thinking of Kaiser) no longer have WM at the center of their constellation. I'm not suggesting that MDs don't work there. I'm noting that the center of such institutions are insurance administrators who make decisions (for better or worse) about healthcare delivery for their institution.

 

>>>Well i am sorry to tell that first at Kaisers the administrators are the MDs (except a very few). All medical decisions is made by MDs. Second, I was involved in starting the first Kaiser program at Vallejo and Kaiser does not care if acupuncture work or not in the big picture. It was set up just as a marketing ploy and to satisfy patient requests. They are not even looking into the cost effectiveness, unfortunately because they are the best place to do so. They do not want to put any money into studying the outcomes. Also at this point we can not talk about CM and Kaiser just acupuncture.

Alon