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Tyson: Kaiser Permanente owns 39 hospitals managed as expense centers
“So you take, for example, in my system, ah, we own 39 hospitals, they're not even revenue centers, they're expense centers.”
Tyson: Kaiser will perform hospital admissions at home within 5-10 years
“We believe strongly that within the next five to 10 years there's a certain percentage of our admissions into the hospital we're going to be doing in the homes.”
Tyson: Most healthcare spending goes to chronic and end-of-life care
“If you look at the distribution of the healthcare dollars in the industry, Number one, the vast majority of the dollars are spent in a couple of areas. It's spent on chronic care, and it's spent on the last 30 to 45 days of a person's life.”
Tyson: Kaiser reduced commercial patient days to 150 per thousand
“Well, if you come into the Kaiser Permanente system, you will see that, ah, commercial days are something like a 150 per thousand, and Medicare is now down to 700.”
Tyson: Reforming Medicare will present a bigger challenge than the ACA rollout
“So we did not do very well As a country in the rollout of the ACA but we're going to have a bigger challenge eventually when we take on the rollout of revised Medicare program.”
Bernard Tyson: Major policy changes passed on strictly partisan lines fail
“One of the biggest lessons that I've learned in being a participant in the whole structure of the Affordable Care Act, the rollout of the Affordable Care Act, is a partisan passed bill for a major change in this country is not a good thing.”
Tyson: Health insurance exchanges destabilize without government regulation and risk-adjustment guardrails
“Well, if you don't have the government playing the appropriate role To regulate and modulate it in the right way at the right time, then it goes crazy, and then people start moving in and out.”
Tyson: Many organizations chase AI without knowing what questions they are answering
“I think the AI is a big opportunity, but it has to be focused, because many organizations right now are chasing the AI and not clear what they're trying to answer, right?”
Tyson: Kaiser Permanente members stay with the system for 18 years
“Well, right now on average about 18 years.”
Tyson: Up to 25% of population needs mental health treatment
“Depending on the way you find, defining it can go upwards of, 25% of the total population when you talk about should be in treatment or other things to 50, 75% when you add things like everyday stress and stress anxiety and all the other stuff that we see as a…”
Tyson: Over 30% of Kaiser doctor visits stem from mental health
“We did a study in one of our regions and did this for a prolonged period of time and discovered that about 30 plus percent of the members, patients who were coming in for an appointment when you began to drill down into the questioning about thirty-something p…”
Tyson: Over 50% of Suicide Victims Show No Warning Signs
“Unfortunately, over 50% of individuals who commit suicide shows no real sign of it before it happens, right?”
Tyson: California is the best example of the ACA working effectively
“The best example of it working fairly well is in California, where we compete on price, we compete on service, we compete on quality.”
Tyson: Kaiser Permanente will only fund technology innovations that scale system-wide
“One of the things I'm talking about right now inside of Kaiser Permanente is I strategically don't support we're just innovating in a corner and I can't scale. Right. Right. So that's nice to have it in the corner, but I'm looking at the whole system, and so I…”