Kaiser Health Plan ordered to pay hospital $82M over insufficient reimbursement

Kaiser Permanente must pay millions to Pomona Valley Hospital Medical Center over years of underpayments for out-of-network emergency medical care, according to a Tuesday final judgment ending a ba | A drawn out legal back-and-forth between Kaiser Health Plan and Pomona Valley Hospital over out-of-network emergency care reimbursement hinged on the terms of a previously terminated contract, making the case "a useful reminder that a terminated contract is not always a dead document.”