[Congressional Record Volume 146, Number 82 (Monday, June 26, 2000)]
[Daily Digest]
[Page D661]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
KIDNEY DIALYSIS
Special Committee on Aging: Committee concluded hearings on the 
hardships that dialysis patients endure when being treated for End 
Stage Renal Disease (kidney failure), and the options for improving the 
government's oversight of kidney dialysis facilities, after receiving 
testimony from George F. Grob, Deputy Inspector General for Evaluation 
and Inspections, and Jeffrey Kang, Director, Office of Clinical 
Standards and Quality, Health Care Financing Administration, both of 
the Department of Health and Human Services; William J. Scanlon, 
Director, Health Financing and Public Health Issues, Health, Education 
and Human Services Division, General Accounting Office; Terry Bahr, 
National Renal Administrators Association, Reston, Virginia; Jay Wish, 
Forum of End-Stage Renal Disease, Midlothian, Virginia; William F. 
Owen, Jr., Renal Physicians Association, Rockville, Maryland; W. 
Kenneth Bays, Pelham, Georgia; and Brent Smith, Chandler, Arizona.