interview with Robert Gumbiner, M.D.
By: interviews conducted by Sally Smith Hughes, 1991-1992 and 1996. Regional Oral History Office, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley,
Contributors: Hughes, Sally Smith.; Bennett, R. Colleen, 1944-; Gumbiner, Burke F., 1950-; Johnson, Harold W., 1944-; LeSeuer, David, 1949-; Lifschultz, Charles A., 1948-; Massimino, Jack D., 1949-; Pingle, Raymond W., 1947-; Price, Westcott W., 1939-; Schulz, Henry, 1915-; Franklin, Nick.; Bancroft Library. Regional Oral History Office.
Published: 1994
Subjects: FHP, Inc; Health maintenance organizations; Physicians -- California -- Interviews
Genres: Interviews.
Other titles: FHP, the evolution of a managed care health maintenance organization, 1955-1992.; FHP, the evolution of a managed care health maintenance organization, 1993-1997.
Description: 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