Oversight

An Overview of the Competitive Effects of Specialty Hospitals

Date: May 24, 2005

Time: 2:00pm

Location: Senate Dirksen Building, SD-342

Agenda:

This hearing will focus on the financial benefits that accrue to Medicare from the presence of specialty hospitals.

Witnesses

Panel 1

John D.

Graubert

Principal Deputy General Counsel

Federal Trade Commission

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Panel 1

Mark E.

Miller

Executive Director

Medicare Payment Advisory Commission (MedPAC)

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Panel 2

Regina

Herzlinger

Professor

School of Business, Harvard University

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Panel 2

Stan

Pelofsky

President Neuroscience Specialists

Owner Oklahoma Spine Hospital

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Panel 2

John

Thomas

Senior Vice President and General Counsel

Baylor Health Care System

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Panel 2

James

Cain

Practicing Family Physician, Lampasas, Texas

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Panel 2

Mr.

Ed

Jungbluth

Heart Patient

Albuquerque, New Mexico

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Panel 2

William G.

Plested, III

Immediate Past Chair, Board of Trustees

American Medical Association

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