Immittle on Aging. Subcommultos Health and Long-Term Care. HEARING BEFORE THE LIBRARY OF CONSREES EXCHAROL SUBCOMMITTEE ON COPY HEALTH AND LONG-TERM CARE OF THE SELECT COMMITTEE ON AGING HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES NINETY-FIFTH CONGRESS SECOND SESSION MAY 2, 1978 Printed for the use of the Select Committee on Aging Comm. Pub. No. 95-137 U.S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE 29-740 O WASHINGTON: 1978 For sale by the Superintendent of Documents, U.S. Government Printing Office SELECT COMMITTEE ON AGING CLAUDE PEPPER, Florida, Chairman EDWARD R. ROYBAL, California TED RISENHOOVER, Oklahoma HELEN S. MEYNER, New Jersey MARTY RUSSO, Illinois STANLEY N. LUNDINE, New York MARY ROSE OAKAR, Ohio WILLIAM C. WAMPLER, Virginia, WILLIAM S. COHEN, Maine RONALD A. SARASIN, Connecticut WILLIAM F. WALSH, New York CHARLES E. GRASSLEY, Iowa JAMES ABDNOR, South Dakota THAD COCHRAN, Mississippi MATTHEW J. RINALDO, New Jersey MARC L. MARKS, Pennsylvania RALPH S. REGULA, Ohio 30 nov 78 Hale Champion, Under Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare, accompa- nied by Howard Veit, Director, HMO Program and William Fullerton, Deputy Administrator of Health Care Financing Administration.. Nelson Cruikshank, Counsellor to the President on Aging, and Chairman, Daniel G. Harwitz, M.D., founder and president, American Health Plan, Inc., Herman A. Schwartz, M.D., Department of Internal Medicine, the Permanente Medical Group (Kaiser), director, Cancer Home Care Program, San Francisco Medical Center; accompanied by H. Frank Newman, M.D., vice president, Kaiser Foundation, and John G. Smillie, M.D., partner, Permanente Medical Milton I. Roemer, M.D., professor, School of Public Health, University of "Suggestions for Improving Methods of Reimbursement of Physicians Under Medicare", submitted by Nelson H. Cruikshank, Counsellor to the President on Aging, and Chairman, Federal Council on the Aging.... U.S. Civil Service Commission brochures and list of premium rates for Prepared statement and report entitled "HMO Performance: The Recent Evidence" submitted by Milton I. Roemer, M.D., professor of public health, University of California, Los Angeles Prepared statement of the National Retired Teachers Association and Prepared statement of Group Health Association of America, Inc., submit- ted by Jeffery Cohelan, executive director. Letter from William R. Hutton, executive director and director of informa- tion, National Council of Senior Citizens, Inc., Washington, D.C............... (III) |