Blue Shield Association___ Catholic Hospital Association_. Caylor-Nickel Hospital, Inc., Charles H. Caylor, M.D., president_. American Institute of Certified Public Accountants: Roscoe L. Egger, Jr., chairman, Federal Government Executive Com- William Freitag, chairman, health care matters. American Osteopathic College of Radiology, Martin S. Landis, president__ American Society of Internal Medicine, William P. Daines, M.D. American Society of Clinical Pathologists__. American Society of Oral Surgeons-- American Speech and Hearing Association---. Association of Pathology Chairmen, Inc--- California Medical Association__ Page 470 473 473 476 478 484 485 494 496 499 501 503 504 508 510 512 519 Chamber of Commerce of the United States, Jan Peter Ozga. Daines, William P., M.D., American Society of Internal Medicine_ 528 533 Crowley, David, executive vice president of the Association of Homes for Doody, Michael F., president, American Osteopathic Hospital Association__ Fox, Allan R., president, American Osteopathic College of Pathologists___ Goldbeck, Willis B., director, Washington Business Group on Health__. Hale, Randolph M., vice president and manager, Industrial Relations Department, National Association of Manufacturers__. 583 572 Hawaii Medical Service Association, Albert H. Yuen, executive vice president 546 Health System Agency of Southwestern Pennsylvania, Matthew Marshall, 547 Homemakers Home and Health Care Services, Ronald E. Rosenberg, vice 552 555 562 Landis, Martin S., president, American Osteopathic College of Radiology-- 476 547 Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary, Charles T. Wood, director_- 563 570 National Association of Manufacturers, Industrial Relations Department, 572 Nightletter for American Medicine, Robert L. Weinmann, M.D., editor and publisher 574 Ozga, Jan Peter, Chamber of Commerce of the United States__. 528 567 Public Citizen's Health Research Group_. 575 Roberts, William F., acting managing director, American Lung Association_ Rosenberg, Ronald E., vice president of planning and development, Homemakers Home and Health Care Services-- 473 552 Schwartz, Ronald D--- 578 Scott, Michael, of Cox, Langford & Brown, counsel to ASA. 373 Servicemaster Industries, Inc., Kenneth T. Wessner, president and chief Smith, John B., legal and legislative counsel, Medical Personnel Pool Sweeney, Robert H., executive director, National Association of Children's Teckemeyer, Robert A., associate executive director, professional relations, Washington Business Group on Health, Willis B. Goldbeck, director___. Wessner, Kenneth T., president and chief executive officer, Servicemaster Page 580 567 570 484 583 574 580 Wood, Charles T., director, Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary__ 563 546 APPENDIXES Appendix A-Communications received by the committee expressing an in- 449 588 ADDITIONAL INFORMATION Committee press release announcing these hearings.. Text of the bill, S. 1470_. 13 The subcommittee met, pursuant to notice, at 8:35 a.m., in room 2221, Dirksen Senate Office Building, Hon. Herman E. Talmadge (chairman of the subcommittee) presiding. Present: Senators Talmadge, Dole, and Danforth. Senator TALMADGE. The subcommittee will come to order. Today, we begin 4 days of hearings on S. 1470, the Medicare and Medicaid Administrative and Reimbursement Reform Act. S. 1470, which I introduced joined by Senators Long, Ribicoff, Dole, and 16 other colleagues, is the successor proposal to S. 3205 of the last Congress. S. 3205 was the subject of 5 days of hearings last July. [The committee press release announcing these hearings and the bill S. 1470 follows:] [Press release, Committee on Finance, Subcommittee on Health] FINANCE COMMITTEE ANNOUNCES HEARING ON MEDICARE AND MEDICAID ADMINISTRATIVE AND REIMBURSEMENT REFORM Senator Herman E. Talmadge (D., Ga.), Chairman of the Subcommittee on Health of the Senate Finance Committee, announced today that the Subcommittee will hold a hearing in early June on the various Medicare and Medicaid administrative and reimbursement reform provisions of S. 1470, introduced by Senator Talmadge on May 5, is cosponsored by a total of 19 Senators. The hearing will be held beginning at 8:30 a.m. each day beginning June 7 through June 10 in Room 2221, Dirksen Senate Office Building. Senator Talmadge stated: "S. 1470 is an improved version of S. 3205, a similar proposal introduced in the last Congress. The present bill incorporates constructive testimony received last year during five days of hearings on S. 3205. S. 1470 is designed to deal with, among other things, the problem of the continued explosion in the costs of the Medicare-Medicaid programs. Last year, I pointed out that those programs would cost Federal and State taxpayers more than $38 billion in fiscal 1977. Bad as that was, just one year later these programs are estimated to cost Federal and State governments more than $47 billion in fiscal 1978." Senator Talmadge said, with respect to soaring health costs: "The Congress and the Administration share a common concern; however, I believe we can best control costs by providing hospitals with equitable incentives and with the right kind of penalties." Requests to testify.-Senator Talmadge advised that witnesses desiring to testify during this hearing make their request to testify to Michael Stern, Staff Director, Committee on Finance, 2227 Dirksen Senate Office Building, Washington, D.C. 20510, not later than Friday, May 27, 1977. Witnesses will be notified as soon as possible after this date as to when they are scheduled to appear. Blue Cross Association, Neil Hollander, vice president for health care serv- Congress of Neurological Surgeons, Donald H. Stewart, Jr., M.D....... Dorrity, Thomas G., M.D., director, Association of American Physicians and Ecklund, Ruth E., president, American Association of Nurse Anesthetists, Finger Lakes Health Systems Agency, Anthony Mott, executive director__ Health Insurance Association of America, Morton D. Miller, vice chairman, Health Systems Agency, Kansas City, Jacqueline Hansen, board chair man Holden, Raymond T., M.D., chairman, Board of Trustees, American Medical Association, accompanied by Edgar T. Beddingfield, Jr., M.D., chairman, council on legislation__. Page 252 170 341 293 156 264 409 403 358 170 398 132 289 432 132 280 132 228 252 Hollander, Neil, vice president for Health Care Services, the Blue Cross Hollister, Hon. David, on behalf of the National Conference of State 115 Horty, John F., president, National Council of Community Hospitals, accompanied by John Huff, counsel. 186 Hospital Financing Study Group, Tom E. Greene III, vice president, Paine, 289 Hutchens, Tyra, M.D., president-elect, College of American Pathologists 341 |