Quality Compass: NCQA Database Lets Compare 200 HMO Plans
The NCQA unveiled Quality Compass an independent rating database enabling employers and advocates to compare more than 200 health maintenance plans nationwide. It provides measures on screenings immunizations surgeries and patient satisfaction with benchmarks and national averages to guide bargaining for better care and value. Authorities acknowledge gaps but hail the step toward consumer driven evaluation and price to value shifts.
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Washington
National Committee On Quality Assurance
NCQA
Quality Compass
Cary Sennett
Mike Donio
Peoples Medical Society
Allentown
Commonwealth Fund
Margaret O’kane
Carmakers seek changes for less violent air bags
U S auto makers plan to seek changes to a key safety rule to allow gentler passenger side air bags aimed at reducing deaths and injuries, especially among children. Officials doubt the plan proves reduced fatalities, noting education and proper seating remain crucial.
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Washington
U.S
Vann Wilber
American Automobile Manufacturers Association
National Highway Traffic Safety Administration
NHTSA
Ricardo Martinez
Congress
Squeezed by pet python ends in emergency
San Diego AP report details a Burmese python wrapping around a pregnant woman and entangling her husband in a downtown motel. Paramedics used a hacksaw to decapitate the snake after a 15 minute struggle. The case was referred to the city attorney for review.
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Mary Anne Carter
Calena
Bill Robinson
Brad
Brad Carter
Robinson
Carter
Carters
San Diego
Val el
Scientists' work disputes claims of life on Mars
NASA researchers had argued signs of life appeared in a Martian meteorite from Antarctica. Ralph Harvey and his Case Western Reserve University team counter that carbonate material in the rock could form via natural chemical reactions from a Martian atmosphere during impact. Harvey notes a natural pathway for carbonates and questions the life interpretation, planning further meteorite collection.
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NASA
Ralph Harvey
Case Western Reserve University
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Antarctica
Harvey
Nature
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