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Does Your Doctor Make the Grade? Physician Report Cards Coming Soon

Medicare is planning to allow insurance companies, consumer groups and employers access to the government’s extensive claims database in order to produce report cards on doctors and hospitals. The goal is to ensure consumers have more information when looking for a specialist or particular hospital for treatment. Doctors will be identified through Medicare files, according…

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Medicare Data Becoming Available for Preparing Doctor Report Cards

Choosing a doctor or surgeon can be a crapshoot. Patients often have little or no information on physicians’ experience or history of successful treatments, medical mistakes or malpractice claims. This puts people needing health care services ranging from long-term care for chronic conditions like diabetes to back surgery at risk for suffering life-threatening and debilitating…

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Congress Proposes Regulations to Prevent Fatigued Truck Driving

Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration data show that approximately 4,000 people get killed in accidents involving iterstate commercial trucks every year. Another 100,000 oter suffer injuries. Now, lawmakers, safety groups and families of truck crash victims are coming together to combat a major cause of those fatal and inury-causing crashes — truck driver fatigue. Currently,…

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