[Federal Register Volume 67, Number 112 (Tuesday, June 11, 2002)]
[Notices]
[Page 39988]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 02-14623]


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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 two reappointments to fill the vacancies occurring 
this year.

DATES: Appointments are effective May 1, 2002 through April 30, 2005.

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 Nancy-Ann 
DeParle, J.D., Senior Advisor, JP Morgan Partners and Adjunct Professor 
at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania; David F. 
Durenberger, President, Public Policy Partners, Inc.: Senior Health 
Policy Fellow at the Graduate School of Business, University of St. 
Thomas; Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, University of St. Thomas/
University of Minnesota's National Institute of Health Policy; and 
former Senator from Minnesota; and Nicholas J. Wolter,M.D., Chief 
Executive Officer, Deaconess Billings Clinic and Pulmonary and Critical 
Care Physician, Billings Clinic. Reappointed members are Carol Raphael, 
President and Chief Executive Officer, Visiting Nurse Service of New 
York; and Mary K. Wakefield, Ph.D., R.N., Director, Center for Rural 
Health, University of North Dakota School of Medicine and Health 
Sciences.

(Sec. 4022, Pub. L. 105-33, 111 Stat. 251, 350)
David M. Walker,
Comptroller General of the United States.
[FR Doc. 02-14623 Filed 6-10-02; 8:45 am]
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