Medicare contractor reform
This article was originally published in The Gray Sheet
Executive Summary
CMS Administrator Tom Scully and Douglas Wood, MD, chairman of the Secretary's Advisory Committee on Regulatory Reform, will testify Feb. 13 at House Ways & Means/Health Subcommittee hearing on the "Medicare Regulatory and Contracting Reform Act" of 2001 (HR 2768). Provisions were included in Medicare legislation (HR 4954) passed by the House last June (1"The Gray Sheet" June 24, 2002, p. 5). Separately, the House Energy & Commerce Committee will convene Feb. 12 to evaluate the Bush Administration's FY 2004 health care priorities...
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