GAO Chief Announces Appointments to MedPAC - May 26, 2010

On May 14, Gene L. Dodaro, Acting Comptroller General of the United States and head of the United States Government Accountability Office (GAO), announced the appointment of four new members and the reappointment of two more to the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission (MedPAC). The new members are Scott Armstrong, President and CEO of Group Health Cooperative, Katherine Baicker, PhD, Professor of Health Economics at the Harvard School of Public Health, Mary Naylor, PhD, RN, FAAN, Professor of Gerontology and Director of the New Courtland Center for Transitions and Health at the University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing, and Cori Uccello, FSA, MAAA, FCA, Senior Health Fellow of the American Academy of Actuaries. The two reappointed members are Thomas M. Dean, MD and Herb B. Kuhn. The terms of the new and reappointed members will expire in April 2013.