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MedPAC taps 3 physicians as commissioners
NEWS IN BRIEF — Posted June 11, 2012
Five new commissioners, including three physicians, were appointed to the independent congressional agency that recommends Medicare payment changes.
The Government Accountability Office named new members of the 17-member Medicare Payment Advisory Commission on May 24. The GAO also reappointed MedPAC Chair Glenn Hackbarth.
The appointments included physicians and health policy experts. The new MedPAC members are: Alice Coombs, MD, a critical care specialist and anesthesiologist at South Shore Hospital, Weymouth, Mass.; Jack Hoadley, PhD, a research professor at Georgetown University in Washington; David Nerenz, PhD, director of the Center for Health Policy and Health Services Research at Henry Ford Health System in Detroit; Rita Redberg, MD, professor of clinical medicine at the University of California, San Francisco Medical Center; and Craig Samitt, MD, president and CEO of Dean Health System, Madison, Wis.
The terms for commissioners Robert Berenson, MD, Mitra Behroozi, Karen Borman, MD, Ronald Castellanos, MD, and Bruce Stuart, PhD, expired in April.
Note: This item originally appeared at http://www.ama-assn.org/amednews/2012/06/11/gvbf0611.htm.
