Kaiser Permanente is one of America’s leading health care providers and nonprofit health plans. Our health plan finances the care delivered by the more than 24,605 physicians of the Permanente Medical Groups, 73,618 nurses, and 75,000 allied health professionals in our 40 hospitals and 618 medical facilities. We serve 12.5 million people in California, Colorado, the District of Columbia, Georgia, Hawaii, Maryland, Oregon, Virginia, and Washington.

We serve our members using a unique business model that combines health coverage and care delivery into one coordinated experience. Unlike a traditional insurance company, we are a membership-based, prepaid, direct health care system. That means our members — whether they come to us through employer-sponsored or individual coverage, Medicare, or Medicaid — pay dues to access care and services that are coordinated across inpatient and outpatient settings, pharmacy, lab, imaging, and other ancillary services.