[Federal Register Volume 70, Number 105 (Thursday, June 2, 2005)]
[Notices]
[Page 32337]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 05-11001]


=======================================================================
-----------------------------------------------------------------------

GOVERNMENT ACCOUNTABILITY OFFICE


Appointments to the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission

AGENCY: Government Accountability Office (GAO).

ACTION: Notice of appointments.

-----------------------------------------------------------------------

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 two 
new appointments and three reappointments to fill the vacancies 
occurring this year.

DATES: Appointments are effective May 1, 2005 through April 30, 2008.

ADDRESSES:

GAO: 441 G Street, NW., Washington, DC 20548.
MedPAC: 601 New Jersey Avenue, NW., Suite 9000, Washington, DC 20001.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

GAO: Molly Ryan, (202) 512-3592.
MedPAC: Mark E. Miller, Ph.D., (202) 220-3700.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: To fill this year's vacancies I am 
announcing the following:
    Newly appointed members are Jennie Chin Hansen, R.N., M.S.N., 
member, American Association of Retired Persons (AARP) Board of 
Directors, and Nancy M. Kane, D.B.A., professor of management, 
Department of Health Policy and Management, Harvard School of Public 
Health. Reappointed members are Nancy-Ann DeParle, J.D., senior 
advisor, JP Morgan Partners, LLC and adjunct professor of health care 
systems, The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania; David F. 
Durenberger, chairman and chief executive officer, National Institute 
of Health Policy; and Nicholas J. Wolter, M.D., chief executive 
officer, Deaconess Billings Clinic.

(Sec. 4022, Pub. L. 105-33, 111 Stat. 251, 350)
David M. Walker,
Comptroller General of the United States.
[FR Doc. 05-11001 Filed 6-1-05; 8:45 am]
BILLING CODE 1610-02-M