Appendixes Appendix A Acknowledgments and the Health Program Advisory Committee

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

The development of this case study was greatly aided by the advice of a number of people. The author and other OTA staff would like to express their appreciation to the advisory panel on Payment for Physician Services: Strategies for Medicare, to the Health Program Advisory Committee, and especially to the following individuals:

Henry C. Alder Cynthia P. King American Hospital Association American Medical Association Chicago, IL Chicago, IL

Charles R. Booth J. Kersten Kraft Health Care Financing Administration Northern California Kidney Stone Center Baltimore, MD Los Gates, CA

Thomas W. Byrne Charles Guidice Blue Cross/Blue Shield of OCHAMPUS , MA Aurora, CO Gary Clisham Frederic C. Jacob Medstone International, Inc. Davis, CA San Diego, CA Gerald Colvin Gerald McDonald Health Systems Agency of Southwestern Veterans Administration Pennsylvania Washington, DC Pittsburgh, PA Robert McDonough Thomas Dolan Duke University Uro-Tech Management Corp. Durham, NC Houston, TX William McGivney George Drach American Medical Association University of Arizona Chicago, IL Tucson, AZ Diane Minear Steven P. Dretler Food and Drug Administration Massachusetts General Hospital Silver Spring, MD Boston, MA Bonnie Grogan Albert G. Mulley Northern California Kidney Stone Center Massachusetts General Hospital Los Gates, CA Boston, MA Harry Heatherington Daniel Newman Health Care Financing Administration Methodist Hospital of Indiana Baltimore, MD Indianapolis, IN Alan Jenkins Eckhard Polzer University of Virginia Medical Center Dornier Medical Systems Inc. Charlottesville, VA Marietta, GA

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Glenn M. Preminger James Snipe University of Texas Health Science Center OCHAMPUS Dallas, TX Aurora, CO Martin I. Resnick Norman T. Welford Case Western Reserve University Food and Drug Administration Cleveland, OH Silver Spring, MD William Shene Richard Wild Monaghan Medical Health Care Financing Administration Plattsburgh, NY Baltimore, MD James Simpson James M. Young Western Center for Health Planning Blue Cross/Blue Shield of Massachusetts San Francisco, CA Boston, MA 91

HEALTH PROGRAM ADVISORY COMMITTEE

H. David Banta Robert Oseasohn Project Director Associate Dean STG Project on Future Health Technology School of Public Health The Netherlands University of Texas Rashi Fein Nora Piore Professor, Department of Social Medicine and Senior Fellow and Advisor to the President Health Policy United Hospital Fund of New York Dorothy Rice Harvey Fineberg Regents Lecturer Dean Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences School of Public Health School of Nursing Harvard University University of California, San Francisco Michael Gough Richard Riegelman Director Associate Professor Risk Science Institute George Washington University Patricia King School of Medicine Professor Walter Robb Georgetown Law Center Vice President & General Manager Medical Systems Operations Joyce C. Lashof General Electric Dean Milwaukee, WI School of Public Health University of California, Berkeley Frederick C. Robbins Alexander Leaf University Professor Professor of Medicine Department of Epidemiology & Biostatistics School of Medicine Harvard Medical School Case Western Reserve University Massachusetts General Hospital Cleveland, OH Frederick Mosteller Frank E. Samuel, Jr. Professor and Chair President Department of Health Policy and Management Health Industry Manufacturers Association School of Public Health Harvard University Rosemary Stevens Professor Norton Nelson Department of History and Sociology of Science Professor Department of Environmental Medicine University of Pennsylvania New York University Medical School