[Federal Register Volume 64, Number 171 (Friday, September 3, 1999)]
[Notices]
[Page 48398]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 99-23006]


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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation


Technical Review Panel on the Medicare Trustees Reports; Notice 
of Establishment

    Pursuant to Public Law 92-463, the Federal Advisory Committee Act, 
the Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) announces the 
establishment by the Secretary of the Technical Review Panel on the 
Medicare Trustees Reports.
    The Panel shall review the assumptions and methods underlying the 
Hospital Insurance and Supplementary Medical Insurance Trust Fund 
annual reports. The panel's review shall include the following four 
topics:
    1. Medicare assumptions (e.g., utilization rates, medical price 
increases).
    2. Projection methodology (how assumptions are used to make cost 
projections).
    3. Long-range growth assumptions for HI and SMI.
    4. Use of stochastic forecasting techniques.
    The Panel shall terminate on August 12, 2001, unless the Secretary, 
DHHS, formally determines that continuance is in the public interest.

    Dated: August 30, 1999.
Margaret A. Hamburg,
Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation.
[FR Doc. 99-23006 Filed 9-2-99; 8:45 am]
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