LIST OF WITNESSES TO APPEAR BEFORE
COMMITTEE ON WAYS AND MEANS
SUBCOMMITTEE ON HEALTH ON
PAYMENT SYSTEMS FOR MEDICARE'S HOME HEALTH BENEFIT


THURSDAY, AUGUST 6, 1998 - BEGINNING AT 10:00 A.M.
ROOM 1100 LONGWORTH HOUSE OFFICE BUILDING


Michael Hash, Deputy Administrator, Health Care Financing Administration


PANEL:

William J. Scanlon, Ph.D., Director, Health Financing Systems, Health Education, and Human Services Division, U.S. General Accounting Office

The Honorable Gail R. Wilensky, Ph.D., Chair, Medicare Payment Advisory Commission

The Honorable June Gibbs Brown, Inspector General, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services


PANEL:

Jerry Knight, Chief Operating Officer, Visiting Nurse Health System, Atlanta, Georgia, on behalf of Visiting Nurse Association of America

Mary Ann Brock, Owner, Guardian Homecare Inc., Houston, Texas, on behalf of Texas Association for Home Care

John L. Indest, Chief Executive Officer, Health Care Resources, New Iberia, Louisiana, on behalf of Home Care Association of Louisiana

Ruth Odgren, Vice President of Operations, Visiting Nurse Service System, on behalf of Tri County Visiting Nurse Association, Plainfield, New Jersey

Denise Palsgaard, President, California Home Care and Hospice, Inc., Merced, California, on behalf of National Association for Home Care