[Federal Register Volume 74, Number 93 (Friday, May 15, 2009)]
[Notices]
[Pages 22929-22930]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E9-11403]


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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 the 
appointment of two new members and the reappointments of five existing 
members.

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DATES: Appointments are effective May 1, 2009.

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. Mifier, PhD, (202) 220-3700.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: To fill this year's vacancies I am 
announcing the following:
    Newly appointed members are Robert A. Berenson, M.D., F.A.C.P., 
senior fellow at the Urban Institute, and Herb B. Kuhn, an independent 
health care consultant specializing in Medicare and Medicaid issues.
    Reappointed members are Mitra Behroozi, J.D., executive director of 
1199 SEIU Benefit and Pension Funds; Karen R. Borman, M.D., professor 
of surgery at the University of Central Florida College of Medicine; 
Ronald D. Castellanos, M.D., urologist at Southwest Florida Urologic 
Associates; Glenn M. Hackbarth, J.D., (chair); and Bruce Stuart, PhD, a 
professor and executive director of the Peter Lamy Center on Drug 
Therapy and Aging at the University of Maryland Baltimore.

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

Gene L. Dodardo,
Acting Comptroller General of the United States.
[FR Doc. E9-11403 Filed 5-14-09; 8:45 am]
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