[Federal Register Volume 77, Number 140 (Friday, July 20, 2012)]
[Notices]
[Page 42735]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2012-17643]


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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 five new members and the reappointment of one existing 
member.

DATES: Appointments are effective May 1, 2012.

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, Ph.D., (202) 220-3700.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: To fill this year's vacancies I am 
announcing the following:
    Newly appointed members are Alice Coombs, MD, Critical Care 
Specialist and Anesthesiologist, South Shore Hospital; Jack Hoadley, 
Ph.D., Research Professor, Health Policy Institute, Georgetown 
University; David Nerenz, Ph.D., Director of the Center for Health 
Policy and Health Services Research, Henry Ford Health System; Rita 
Redberg, MD, Professor, Clinical Medicine, University of California at 
San Francisco Medical Center; and Craig Samitt, MD, President and Chief 
Executive Officer, Dean Health System, Inc.. Their terms will expire in 
April 2015. The reappointed member is Glenn M. Hackbarth, J.D., 
(chair).

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

Gene L. Dodaro,
Comptroller General of the United States.
[FR Doc. 2012-17643 Filed 7-19-12; 8:45 am]
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