[Federal Register Volume 66, Number 104 (Wednesday, May 30, 2001)]
[Notices]
[Page 29328]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 01-13445]


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GENERAL ACCOUNTING OFFICE


Appointments to the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission

AGENCY: General Accounting Office (GAO).

ACTION: Notice of appointments.

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SUMMARY: The Balanced Budget Act of 1997 established the Medicare 
Payment Advisory Commission (MedPAC) and gave the Comptroller General 
responsibility for appointing its members. This notice announces three 
new appointments and three reappointments to fill the vacancies 
occurring this year, and designates the Chair and Vice Chair of the 
Commission.

DATES: Appointments are effective May 1, 2001 through April 30, 2004.

ADDRESSES: GAO: 441 G Street, NW, Washington, DC 20548; MedPAC: 1730 K 
Street, NW, Suite 800, Washington, DC 20006.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: GAO: Molly Ryan, 202/512-3592; MedPAC: 
Murray N. Ross, Ph.D., 202/653-7220.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: To fill this year's vacancies I am 
announcing the following:
    Newly appointed members are Sheila P. Burke, Under Secretary for 
American Museums and National Programs, Smithsonian Institution; Allen 
D. Feezor, Health Benefits Administrator, California Public Employees' 
Retirement System; and Ralph W. Muller, President and CEO, University 
of Chicago Hospitals and Health System; reappointed members are Joseph 
P. Newhouse, Ph.D., John D. MacArthur Professor of Health Policy and 
Management, Harvard University; Alice F. Rosenblatt, Senior Vice 
President, Merger and Acquisition Integration, Wellpoint Health 
Networks; and John W. Rowe, M.D., Chairman, CEO, and President, Aetna 
Inc. I also hereby name Glenn M. Hackbarth, J.D., an independent 
consultant, as Chair of the Commission; and Robert D. Reischauer, 
Ph.D., President of the Urban Institute, as Vice Chair.

(Sec. 4022, Pub. L. 105-33, 111 Stat. 251, 350)


David M. Walker,
Comptroller General of the United States.
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