Protecting Medicare and Medicaid Patients from Sanctioned Health Practitioners
S. Hwo. 98874 PROTECTING MEDICARE AND MEDICAID PATIENTS FROM SANCTIONED HEALTH PRACTITIONERS HEARING BEFORE THE SPECIAL COMMITTEE ON AGING UNITED STATES SENATE NINETY-EIGHTH CONGRESS SECOND SESSION WASHINGTON, DC MAY 1, 1984 Printed for the use of the Special Committee on Aging U.S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE 6874 0 WASHINGTON: 1984 SPECIAL COMMITTEE ON AGING JOHN HEINZ, Pennsylvania, Chairman PETE V. DOMENICI, New Mexico JOHN GLENN, Ohio CHARLES H. PERCY, Illinois LAWTON CHILES, Florida NANCY LANDON KASSEBAUM, Kansas JOHN MELCHER, Montana WILLIAM S. COHEN, Maine DAVID PRYOR, Arkansas LARRY PRESSLER, South Dakota BILL BRADLEY, New Jersey CHARLES E. GRASSLEY, Iowa QUENTIN N. BURDICK, North Dakota I PETE WILSON, California CHRISTOPHER J. DODD, Connecticut JOHN W. WARNER, Virginia J. BENNETT JOHNSTON, Louisiana DANIEL J. EVANS, Washington JEFF BINGAMAN, New Mexico JOHN C. ROTHER, Staff Director and Chief Counsel DIANE LIPSEY, Minority Staff Director ROBIN L. KROPP, Chief Clerk (11) CONTENTS Page Opening statement by Senator John Heinz, chairman…----------------- 1 Statement by Senator John Glenn------------------------------------- 3 Statement by Senator John Melcher…-----------------------------______ 4 Statement by Senator Pete Wilson------------------------------------- 14 CHRONOLOGICAL LIST OF WITNESSES Derbyshire, Dr. Robert C., Santa Fe, NM, author and past president of the Federation of State Medical Boards----------------------------- 6 Zimmerman, Michael, Washington, DC, Associate Director, Human Re- sources Division, General Accounting Office, accompanied by Tom Dow- dal, Group Director, Human Resources Division; and Don Warsing, evaluator, Human Resources Division--___________________________ 17 Kusserow, Richard P., Washington, DC, Inspector General, U.S. Depart- ment of Health and Human Services--------------------------------- 24 Ring, Dr. John J., Mundelein, IL, member, board of trustees, American Medical Association, accompanied by Ross N.
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