An 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
Language: eng
Number of pages: 34
Subjects: Physicians; Interviews; Health maintenance organizations; Inc FHP
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
Notes: Volume 1: Title-page wrongly bound following p. vii.

Audio tape recording of the interviews also available.

Dept. of Special Collections, University of California, Los Angeles Library.

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.