LIST OF WITNESSES TO APPEAR BEFORE
COMMITTEE ON WAYS AND MEANS
SUBCOMMITTEE ON HEALTH
ON HOME HEALTH CARE AND SKILLED NURSING FACILITY
AND OTHER POST ACUTE CARE PAYMENT POLICIES


TUESDAY, MARCH 4, 1997 - BEGINNING AT 1:00 P.M.
ROOM 1310 LONGWORTH HOUSE OFFICE BUILDING


PANEL:

Joseph P. Newhouse, Ph.D., Chairman, Prospective Payment Assessment Commission;          accompanied by
Donald A. Young, M.D., Executive Director, Prospective Payment Assessment Commission

William J.Scanlon, Ph.D., Director of the Health Financing and Systems Issues, Health Education and Human Services FDibision, U.S. General Accounting Office;
    accompanied by
Thomas Dowdal, Senior Assistant Director, Health Finanicing and Systems Issues

George F. Grob, Deputy Inspector General for Evaluations and Inspections, Office of the Inspector General, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services


PANEL:

Steven Chies, Chairman, American Health Care Association Advocacy Committee; and Owner/Operator, North Cities Health Care Incorporated, Coon Rapids, Minnesota

Joseph H. Hafkenschiel, President, California Association for Health Services at Home, Sacremento, California, on Behalf of the PPS Work Group

Margret J. Cushman, President, VNA Health Care, Inc., Plainville, Connecticut; on behalf of the National Association for Home Care