Note only the KP Foundation Health Plan and Hospitals are non profit. The med groups (which employ drs and a lot of other personnel) are for profit. I think b

Note only the KP Foundation Health Plan and Hospitals are non profit. The med groups (which employ drs and a lot of other personnel) are for profit. I think both a strength and weakness of KP is that it is not really one organization, but more like 20+ related legal entities. Each region has their own med group/health plan with some regions having their own hospital foundation (some like Georgia do not own hospitals). This means that a lot of work/decision making is extremely siloed and KP National has limited ability to lay down the law. Different Regions and even just medgroup vs health plan within one region often don’t want to share data. Also, KP’s ehr is not cross-region compatible.