[Federal Register Volume 72, Number 104 (Thursday, May 31, 2007)]
[Notices]
[Page 30383]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 07-2680]


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GOVERNMENT ACCOUNTABILITY OFFICE


Appointments to the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission

AGENCY: Government Accountability 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 four reappointments to fill the vacancies 
occurring this year.

DATES: Appointments are effective May 1, 2007 through April 30, 2010, 
except as noted.

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 Office of Public Affairs, (202) 
512-4800. MedPAC: Mark E. Miller, PhD, (202) 220-3700.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: To fill this year's vacancies I am 
announcing the following:
    Newly appointed members are Thomas M. Dean, M.D., Chief of Staff, 
Avera Weskota Memorial Medical Center; Jack C. Ebeler, Independent 
consultant; and Bruce Stuart, PhD, professor and executive director, 
Peter Lamy Center on Drug Therapy and Aging, University of Maryland 
Baltimore. Professor Stuart is appointed to complete the remaining two 
years of Douglas Holtz-Eakin's three-year term that began in 2006. 
Holtz-Eakin resigned from his position on MedPAC effective May 2, 2007.
    Reappointed members are John M. Bertko, F.S.A., M.A.A.A., vice 
president and chief actuary, Humana Inc.; Francis J. Crosson, M.D., 
executive director, the Permanente Federation, LLC; Arnold Milstein, 
M.D., M.P.H., medical director, Pacific Business Group on Health; and 
William J. Scanlon, PhD, health policy consultant.

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

David M. Walker,
Comptroller General of the United States.
[FR Doc. 07-2680 Filed 5-30-07; 8:45 am]
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