MedPAC will hold its next meeting on October 6 and October 7.  Here’s the agenda:

The Horizon Ballroom
Ronald Reagan Building
International Trade Center
1300 Pennsylvania Avenue, N.W.

October 6-7, 2011

Thursday, October 6, 2011

9:45 AM – 12:00 PM
Moving forward from the Sustainable Growth Rate System (Cristina Boccuti, Kevin Hayes, Kate Bloniarz)

12:00 PM – 12:15 PM
Public comment

12:15 PM – 1:15 PM
Lunch

1:15 PM – 2:45 PM
Coordinating care for dual-eligible beneficiaries through the PACE program (Christine Aguiar)

2:45 PM – 4:00 PM
Mandated report:  Quality of care in rural areas (Jeff Stensland, Adaeze Akamigbo)

4:00 PM – 5:00 PM
Improving payment and care under Medicare’s inpatient psychiatric benefit (Dana Kelley)

5:00 PM – 5:15 PM
Public comment

Friday, October 7, 2011

9:00 AM – 10:30 AM
Reforming Medicare’s benefit design (Scott Harrison, Joan Sokolovsky, Julie Lee)

10:30 AM – 12:00 PM
Potentially preventable hospital admissions and emergency department visits (Nancy Ray, Anne Mutti, Kate Bloniarz)

12:00 PM – 12:15 PM
Public comment

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