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An interview with Robert Gumbiner, M.D. : oral history transcript / 1994, 1997.
Phonotape 2759 C:1-18; Phonotape 2907 C:1-16; BANC MSS 95/74 c v. 1; BANC MSS 95/74 c v. 2; ...
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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:
FHP, Inc.Health maintenance organizations
Physicians -- California -- Interviews
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.
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.
Volumes includes indices.
Type:
Oral histories.Physical Description:
print
2 v. ; 29 cm.
34 cassette tapes.
1 box (.2 linear ft.)
Language:
English
Identifier:
http://nma.berkeley.edu/ark:/28722/bk0005z3f1d
Phonotape 2759 C:1-18
Phonotape 2907 C:1-16
BANC MSS 95/74 c v. 1
BANC MSS 95/74 c v. 2
BANC MSS 95/74 c
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.