[Federal Register Volume 65, Number 64 (Monday, April 3, 2000)]
[Notices]
[Page 17543]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 00-8068]



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MEDICARE PAYMENT ADVISORY COMMISSION


Notice of Meeting

AGENCY: Medicare Payment Advisory Commission.

ACTION: Notice of meeting.

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SUMMARY: The Commission will hold its next public meeting on Thursday, 
April 13, 2000 and Friday, April 14, 2000 at the Ronald Reagan 
Building, International Trade Center, 1300 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW, 
Washington, DC. The meeting is tentatively scheduled to begin at 10 
a.m. on April 13, and 9 a.m. on April 14.
    Topics for discussion include: payments to teaching hospitals and 
DRG refinement, improving quality assurance for institutional 
providers, financial performance and payment update for hospitals 
covered by PPS, hospital financial performance and payment update for 
facilities exempt from PPS, work plan on mandated study on medical 
savings accounts, improving payment policy for hospital outpatient 
departments and physicians' services, criteria for evaluating proposals 
to reform Medicare, prescription drug coverage issues, and an update on 
proposed refinements to the SNF PPS.
    Agenda will be mailed on April 4, 2000. The final agenda will be 
available on the Commission's website (www.MedPAC.gov).

ADDRESSES: MedPAC's address is: 1730 K Street, NW, Suite 800, 
Washington, DC 20006. The telephone number is (202) 653-7220.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Diane Ellison, Office Manager, (202) 
653-7220.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: If you are not on the Commission mailing 
list and wish to receive an agenda, please call (202) 653-7220.

Murray N. Ross,
Executive Director.
[FR Doc. 00-8068 Filed 3-31-00; 8:45 am]
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