[Congressional Record Volume 142, Number 20 (Friday, February 16, 1996)]
[Daily Digest]
[Page D80]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
NOMINATION
Committee on Finance: On Wednesday, February 14, committee concluded 
hearings on the nomination of Stuart E. Eizenstat, of Maryland, to be 
Under Secretary of Commerce for International Trade, after the nominee, 
who was introduced by Senator Rockefeller, testified and answered 
questions in his own behalf.
MEDICARE
Committee on Governmental Affairs: On Wednesday, February 14, Permanent 
Subcommittee on Investigations held hearings to examine the Medicare 
billing process by certain hospitals for investigational medical 
devices and procedures, receiving testimony from Jack Hartwig, Deputy 
Inspector General, and Tom Ault, Director, Bureau of Policy 
Development, and Gary Kavanagh, Deputy Director, Bureau of Program 
Operations, both of the Health Care Financing Administration, all of 
the Department of Health and Human Services; Dennis Stillman, 
University of Washington Medical Center, Seattle; Anthony M. Sanzo, 
Allegheny General Hospital, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; Patrick Fry, 
Sutter Community Hospitals, and Mark W. Rieger, Sutter Memorial 
Hospital, both of Sacramento, California; and Farrell Maier, Sparks, 
Oklahoma.
  Hearings were recessed subject to call.