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An interview with Robert Gumbiner, M.D. : oral history transcript / 1994, 1997FHP, the evolution of a managed care health maintenance organization, 1955-1992
FHP, the evolution of a managed care health maintenance organization, 1993-1997
Creator/Contributor:
Gumbiner, Robert, creator, interviewee.Creator/Contributor:
Hughes, Sally Smith, interviewer.Creator/Contributor:
Bennett, R. Colleen, 1944-, interviewee.Creator/Contributor:
Gumbiner, Burke F., 1950-, interviewee.Creator/Contributor:
Johnson, Harold W., 1944-, interviewee.Creator/Contributor:
LeSeuer, David, 1949-, interviewee.Creator/Contributor:
Lifschultz, Charles A., 1948-, interviewee.Creator/Contributor:
Massimino, Jack D., 1949-, interviewee.Creator/Contributor:
Pingle, Raymond W., 1947-, interviewee.Creator/Contributor:
Price, Westcott W., 1939-, interviewee.Creator/Contributor:
Schulz, Henry, 1915-, interviewee.Creator/Contributor:
Franklin, Nick, interviewee.Creator/Contributor:
Bancroft Library, Regional Oral History Office.Abstract:
Gumbiner (b. 1923) discusses his Indiana background: medical school, internship, and general practice; move to California,
1949, and working in both fee-for-service and HMO-style settings; Lakewood Plaza Medical Group, and the Family Health Program
[FHP]: group practice, recruiting patients, fee-for-service vs. prepayment medicine, medical and social ostracism; FHP, Inc.:
growth since 1966, California State Attorney General's office files suits regarding Medi-Cal and for-profit conversion, building
hospitals and medical centers, expansion to Guam and Utah, matrix management system; discusses prioritizing medical care,
the personal physician, management style. Includes interviews with nine former and present FHP employees, with early association
or with key positions in the company: R. Colleen Bennett (b.1934); Burke F. Gumbiner (b. 1950); Harold W. Johnson, III (b.
1944); David LeSueur (b. 1949); Charles A. Lifschultz (b. 1948); Jack D. Massimino (b.1949); Raymond W. Pingle (b. 1947);
Westcott W. Price, III (b. 1939); and Henry Schultz (b. 1915).
Views on current health care industry; FHP federal and state lobbying efforts and management; FHP/TakeCare merger; Gumbiner's
resignation as FHP board chairman; FHP restructuring, chairman/board relationships; demise of FHP IPA; art restaurant and
philanthropic endeavors. Includes interviews with Nick Franklin, senior vice president of FHP Public Affairs; and Burke Gumbiner,
FHP senior vice president and president of FHP insurance group.
Includes typescript by Gumbiner titled "How the shareholders of FHP were defrauded of $400 million by their own board of directors
and how that board of directors enriched themselves at the shareholders expense" written in 1997.
Date:
1994 (issued)Subject:
n-us-caHealth maintenance organizations
Physicians -- California -- Interviews
Health Maintenance Organizations
Assurance-maladie à prépaiement
Médecins -- Californie -- Entretiens
Health maintenance organizations
Physicians
California
FHP, Inc.
FHP, Inc.
Note:
interviews conducted by Sally Smith Hughes, 1991-1992 and 1996. Regional Oral History Office, The Bancroft Library, University
of California, Berkeley,
Volume 1: Title-page wrongly bound following p. vii.
AUDIO/VISUAL MATERIALS RESTRICTED. Requests for use of original must be approved by the appropriate curator. CU-BANC
Audio tape recording of the interviews also available.
Also available online.
Volumes includes indices.
Dept. of Special Collections, University of California, Los Angeles Library. Duplicate transcript.
The non-exclusive right to permit publication of quotations and the right to use these interviews in furtherance of writing
articles or books is granted and assigned to Robert Gumbiner, M.D.
Type:
Interviews.Oral histories.
Physical Description:
print
2 v. ; 29 cm.
34 cassette tapes.
1 box (.2 linear ft.)
Language:
English
Origin:
CaliforniaCopyright Note:
AUDIO/VISUAL MATERIALS RESTRICTED. Requests for use of original must be approved by the appropriate curator. CU-BANC
The non-exclusive right to permit publication of quotations and the right to use these interviews in furtherance of writing
articles or books is granted and assigned to Robert Gumbiner, M.D.