[Federal Register Volume 65, Number 174 (Thursday, September 7, 2000)]
[Notices]
[Page 54320]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 00-22869]


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MEDICARE PAYMENT ADVISORY COMMISSION


Commission 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, 
September 14, 2000, and Friday, September 15, 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 September 14, and 9:00 a.m. on September 15.
    Topics for discussion include: quality standards for 
Medicare+Choice, update on Medicare+Choice plan withdrawals and the 
approval of the private fee-for-service plan, risk adjustment in 
Medicare+Choice, risk adjustment for the frail elderly, options for 
accelerating the buy-down of beneficiary coinsurance under the 
outpatient prospective payment system (PPS), consistency of physician 
payments and actual practice expenses, indicators for evaluating 
Medicare payment policies, update on the post-acute care PPSs, defining 
access and options to improve monitoring, approaches for measuring 
access to home health services under the new PPS, and special payment 
provisions for rural providers.
    Agendas will be mailed on September 5, 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.

Murray N. Ross,
Executive Director.
[FR Doc. 00-22869 Filed 9-6-00; 8:45 am]
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