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The 3 primary lines of business that compromise Kaiser's membership and financial performance
What are Commercial, Medicare and Medicaid?
NFP&A provides insights needed for critical decision making to this weekly leadership forum
What is the CEOx?
The three TM1 modules used to support our enterprise financial planning processes
What are NATL, NBT, and RSSP?
This function includes Actuarial Services, Controller Services, and Treasury
What is PO Finance?
This is the discount rate applied to calculate NPV and IRR for capital business cases
What is 11%?
The acronym for this team is NCSI
Hint: It isn't Not Crime Scene Investigations
What is National Cost Structure Improvement?
The annualized utilization rate measuring the number of hospital days used per year by 1,000 members
What is Patient Day Rate (PDR)?
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What is “Year to Date”?
Actuarial, Strategic Market Planning and Financial Planning
Who are the key teams that participate in determining rate setting actions?
This monthly deliverable surfaces the need for early course correction in the current month to improve performance
What is the mid-month review?
The workday that Strata currently is opening for monthly forecasting
What is workday 10?
Distribution of costs from National Functions to the Markets either directly or indirectly
What is an allocation?
59% of the 10YP Capital Plan is spent on this
What is maintenance?
These are the three key Care Excellence initiatives in the Medicare Turnaround PMO
What are Advanced Care at Home, Dignified Journeys, and Complex Case Management?
The average KP member spent 11 days waiting for this in 2025?
What is a primary care access appointment?
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What is “Full Time Equivalent”?
March 2026
What is the month that the organization will approve the 2027 rates for employer groups?
This monthly deliverable identifies forward-looking risks & opportunities to achieving full year commitments
What is the monthly full-year forecast?
The tool in CRA that allows users to query data and download into Excel
What is super flex?
A per member factor used to allocate indirect non-usage based costs by equalizing all types of members into one standard metric
What is Commercial Equivalent Membership (CEQM)?
This is the capital threshold that requires Board approval
What is a $150 million?
KP uses this to benchmark hospital staffing productivity
What is Operational Database Benchmarking (ODB)?
There were over 125,000 as of July 31, 2025
What is the total number of KFH/HP employees?
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What is “Common Reporting and Analytics”?
Rate position, Brand image, Service and Access Scores, Population and Economic Growth
What are Key Membership Growth Drivers?
These annual check-ins in July between national & market leaders identify performance risk & drive course correction to achieve full-year commitments
What are Mid-Year Review meetings?
The initial forecast calculation in Strata One Plan
What is the Baseline Forecast?
Permanent resource and/or spend shift between markets and functions to re-align fiscal ownership with the appropriate responsible party
What is a budget transfer?
Sunnyside hospital is located in this market
Where is the Northwest?
This line of business is targeted to have a -7.8% operating margin.
What is Medicare?
PMG and Health Plan will be sharing feedback on this in the 2026 budget for the first time in most KP markets
What is an ambulatory demand forecast?
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What is “Per Member Per Month”?
Financial metric that measures an investment's compounded annual growth rate by finding the discount rate at which the net present value (NPV) of all cash flows from the investment equals zero.
What is Internal Rate of Return (IRR)?
In July and August, markets work to actualize national initiative opportunities & continue to develop market-specific initiatives to build into annual budgets
What is 2026 line-of-sight gap closure work?
The two configuration options for departments in Strata
What is variable and fixed?
This allocating body allocates 100% of its costs based on an indirect allocation methodology and at budget
What is Program Office?
Total number of KP-owned hospitals
What is 41?
The acronym for this is PRISM
What is the Productivity Improvement System?
The region with the most productive clinical support staff of all MOC regions
Who is Georgia?
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What is “Enterprise Performance Management Solution”?
Medicaid Losses, Charitable Healthcare Coverage, Medical Financial Assistance, Grants and Donations, Health Professional Training
This process sets annual enterprise, market & national function operating and capital commitments
What is the budget?
This single document provides market summary information by dollars, FTEs, PMPMs, and operational metrics (e.g., PDR, ADC , ED Visits, Discharges, Rx drug costs by GPI)
What is the CFO Dashboard in CRA?
Each function is required to budget dollars and FTEs for these two types of funding pools
What are Core and Investments?
$2.1 billion is the approved capital investment to replace this hospital
What is San Jose Medical Center (also known as Kaiser Santa Teresa)?
150 (+/- 10%) KP members are part of this at-home program
What is the Hospital at Home program?
These are two main drivers that influence PDR performance
What are discharges and average length of stay (ALOS)?
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What is “Northern California, Southern California, Colorado, Georgia, Hawaii, Mid-Atlantic States, Northwest, Washington”?