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Causes: Group Health Practices, Health
Mission: To provide high-quality, affordable health care services to improve the health of our members and the communities we serve.
Programs: - member health care services and medical training for care improvement - kaiser foundation health plan of georgia, inc. (kfhp-ga) provides medical and surgical care, including urgent care services, extended care and home health care, for its members without regards to age, sex, race, religion or national origin or the ability to pay. Kfhp of georgia educates and trains medical students and other health care professionals and promotes scientific and nursing education in order to improve care.
- charitable care (medical financial assistance and charitable coverage)- kaiser foundation health plan of georgia (kfhp-ga) provides charity care to low-income vulnerable patients through the medical financial assistance (mfa) and charitable health coverage (chc) programs. Kfhp-ga offers financial assistance through the mfa program to help families and individuals with a demonstrated financial need pay for all or part of the cost of emergency or medically necessary care provided in kaiser permanente facilities and/or by kaiser permanente providers. In 2017, this program assisted more than 6,000 qualifying applicants, including over 600 patients who were not covered by a kfhp-ga product. The chc program offers regular kaiser foundation health plan membership at minimal cost to low income families who are not eligible for other public or privately sponsored coverage. Approximately 2,000 individuals were receiving comprehensive health care through this program at the end of 2017.
- medicaid and other government sponsored programs - kaiser foundation health plan of georgia (kfhp-ga) is committed to improving medical care for beneficiaries of medicaid and other government sponsored programs, not only for kfhp-ga members, but also within the communities we serve. Kfhp-ga participates in the federal medicaid program as a provider of pediatric primary and specialty care through contracts with amerigroup, peach state health plan, and wellcare health plans. In 2017, more than 22,000 pediatric medicaid and childrens health insurance program (chip) individuals were receiving benefits under kfhp-gas managed care contracts with health plans.
sch. O, community benefit report