[Federal Register Volume 75, Number 15 (Monday, January 25, 2010)]
[Notices]
[Page 3904]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2010-1371]


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GOVERNMENT ACCOUNTABILITY OFFICE


Appointments to the Medicaid and CHIP Payment and Access 
Commission (MACPAC)

AGENCY: Government Accountability Office (GAO).

ACTION: Notice of appointments.

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SUMMARY: The Children's Health Insurance Program Reauthorization Act of 
2009 established MACPAC to review Medicaid and CHIP access and payment 
policies and to advise Congress on issues affecting Medicaid and CHIP. 
The Act directs the Comptroller General to appoint MACPAC's members, 
with initial appointments to be made no later than January 1, 2010. The 
terms of MACPAC commissioners are intended to be staggered, with the 
first set of appointments for terms of one, two, or three years. 
Commissioners may be appointed for subsequent three-year terms.

DATES: Appointments are effective January 1, 2010.

ADDRESSES: GAO: 441 G Street, NW., Washington, DC 20548.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: GAO: Office of Public Affairs, (202) 
512-4800.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: I am announcing the following appointments 
to the new Medicaid and CHIP Payment and Access Commission:
    Commissioners whose first term will expire in December 2012 are 
Diane Rowland, ScD, (chair) Executive Vice President, Henry J. Kaiser 
Family Foundation and Executive Director, Kaiser Commission on Medicaid 
and the Uninsured; Donna Checkett, MPA, MSW, Senior Vice President of 
Medicaid Business Development, Aetna; Patricia Gabow, MD, Chief 
Executive Officer, Denver Health and Hospital Authority; Mark Hoyt, 
FSA, MAAA, National Practice Leader of the Government Human Services 
Consulting Specialty Group, Mercer, LLC; Trish Riley, MS, Director, 
Maine Governor's Office of Health Policy and Finance; and Steven 
Waldren, MD, MS, Director, Center for Health Information Technology, 
American Academy of Family Physicians.
    Commissioners whose first term will expire in December 2011 are 
David Sundwall, MD, (vice chair) Executive Director, Utah Department of 
Health, and Commissioner of Health, State of Utah; Richard Chambers, 
Chief Executive Officer, CalOptima; Burton Edelstein, DDS, MPH, 
Professor, Clinical Dentistry, College of Dental Medicine and Clinical 
Health Policy and Management, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia 
University; Denise Henning, CNM, MSN, Service Line Leader for Women's 
Health, Collier Health Services; Judith Moore, Senior Fellow, National 
Health Policy Forum, George Washington University; and Robin Smith, 
foster and adoptive parent of special needs children covered by 
Medicaid.
    Commissioners whose first term will expire in December 2010 are 
Sharon L. Carte, MS, Executive Director, West Virginia Children's 
Health Insurance Program; Andrea Cohen, JD, Director of Health 
Services, NYC Office of the Deputy Mayor for Health and Human Services; 
Herman Gray, MD, MBA, President, Children's Hospital of Michigan and 
Senior Vice President, Detroit Medical Center; Norma Martinez Rogers, 
PhD, RN, FAAN, Professor, Department of Family Nursing, University of 
Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio; and Sara Rosenbaum, JD, 
Chair, Department of Health Policy and Harold and Jane Hirsh Professor 
of Health Law and Policy, The George Washington (GW) University School 
of Public Health and Health Services, and Professor of Health Care 
Sciences, GW's School of Medicine and Health Sciences.

[Sec. 506, Pub. L. 111-3, 123 Stat. 8, 91 (42 U.S.C. 1396).]

Gene L. Dodaro,
Acting Comptroller General of the United States.
[FR Doc. 2010-1371 Filed 1-22-10; 8:45 am]
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