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Would that mean that they would send the patients back home unless they can provably identify some issue? (This has happened to me a few times (with the issue re-discovered at a later point), though I have never been with Kaiser.)

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Some of the Kaiser doctors are more evidence-based than others. But none of them take home more money if, for example, they operate on your rather than not. That is still true in many plans, even high-end ones, though they're not going to tell you about it.