[Federal Register Volume 65, Number 197 (Wednesday, October 11, 2000)]
[Notices]
[Pages 60470-60471]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 00-25985]


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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, 
October 19, 2000, and Friday, October

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20, 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. to October 19, and at 9 a.m. 
on October 20.
    Topics for discussion include: Issues in risk-adjusting payments to 
Medicare+Choice plans; Medicare MSAs; meeting Medicare+Choice program 
goals; proposed work plan for regulatory burden study; post-surgical 
recovery care centers; developing input price indexes for all health 
care settings; ESRD payment issues; issues in post-acute care, 
including case-mix changes in skilled nursing facilities, payment 
policy for speciality psychiatric facilities, and the feasibility of 
developing clinical indicators for evaluating use; and options to 
reduce beneficiary coinsurance for hospital outpatient department 
services.
    Agendas will be mailed on October 11, 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. 00-25985 Filed 10-10-00; 8:45 am]
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