[Federal Register Volume 79, Number 120 (Monday, June 23, 2014)]
[Notices]
[Pages 35545-35546]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2014-14500]


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GOVERNMENT ACCOUNTABILITY OFFICE


Appointments to the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission (MedPAC)

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 three new members and the reappointment of two existing 
members.

DATES: Appointments are effective May 1, 2014.

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 Kathy Buto, MPA; Francis ``Jay'' 
Crosson, MD, Group Vice President, American Medical Association in 
Chicago, Illinois; and Warner Thomas, MBA, President and CEO of the 
Ochsner Health System in New Orleans, Louisiana. Their terms will 
expire in April 2017.
    The reappointed members, whose terms will also expire in April 
2017, are Willis D. Gradison, Jr., MBA, formerly a

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Scholar in Residence in the Health Sector Management Program at Duke 
University's Fuqua School of Business, and William J. Hall, MD, 
Director of the Center for Healthy Aging at the University of Rochester 
School of Medicine.
    In addition, Commissioner Jon B. Christianson, Ph.D., Professor in 
the Division of Health Policy and Management at the School of Public 
Health at the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis has been 
designated as Vice Chair of the Commission. [42 U.S.C. 1395b-6.]

Gene L. Dodaro,
Comptroller General of the United States.
[FR Doc. 2014-14500 Filed 6-20-14; 8:45 am]
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