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Hearing on Implementation of the Medicare Drug Benefit
Hearing Advisory | | Johnson Announces Hearing on Implementation of the Medicare Drug Benefit | | | Change in Time for the Hearing on Implementation of the Medicare Drug Benefit | | Witness List and Testimony (Printer Friendly)
Witnesses | | The Honorable Mark McClellan, M.D., Ph.D., Administrator, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
| | Beatrice Disman, Chairman, Medicare Planning and Implementation Task Force, Social Security Administration |
| | Panel: | | Susan Everett, North Carolina Regional Coordinator, Medicare Today, Raleigh,
North Carolina | | Heath Schiesser, President, Prescription Drug Plan, WellCare Health Plans, Inc.,
Tampa, Florida | | Robert M. Hayes, President, Medicare Rights Center | | Bill Wolfe, Vice President, Managed Care, Rite Aid Corporation,
Harrisburg, Pennsylvania | | Pam Grisnik, Owner, RX Express, Grove City, Pennsylvania |
| Submissions for the Record | American College of Physicians, statement | | American Medical Directors Association, Columbia, MD, statement
| | Brief, Cary, Campaign for America's Future, Sherman Oaks, CA, letter | | Center for Medicare Advocacy, Inc., statement | | Collins, Shannon, San Rafael, CA, statement | | Emerick, Therese, statement | | Fullerton, Linda, Social Security Disability Coalition, Rochester, NY, statement | | Harrison, W. M., Durham, NC, letter | | Health and Disability Advocates and Make Medicare Work Coalition, Chicago, IL, joint statement | | Kennelly, Barbara, National Committee to Preserve Social Security and Medicare, statement
| | Kieft, Alice, Kewanee, IL, letter | | Koski, Fran, Alamosa Dialysis Center, Alamosa, CO, letter | | Mierisch, George, Salt Lake City, UT, letter | | Miller, Jessica, Huntington, NY, letter | | Muckway, Linda, Muncie, IN, letter | | National Association of Health Underwriters, Arlington, VA, statement | | National Home Infusion Association, Alexandria, VA, statement
| | National Kidney Foundation, New York, NY, statement | | Reading, Toniann, Mill Creek, WA, letter | | Rios, Elena, National Hispanic Medical Association, statement
| | Romney, Frances, West Valley City, UT, letter | | Sperling, Andrew, National Alliance on Mental Illness, Arlington, VA, statement | | Sutherland, Arthur, Sandy, UT, letter |
| Hearing Transcript | | Committee on Ways and Means, Subcommittee on Health, 109-84, Hearing on Implementation of the Medicare Drug Benefit | Printed Hearing | | Not Yet Available | | | |