Former College president appointed to MedPAC
The U.S. Government Accountability Office recently announced that William J. Hall, MACP, will be one of two new members of the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission.
The U.S. Government Accountability Office recently announced that William J. Hall, MACP, will be one of two new members of the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission (MedPAC).
Dr. Hall is a geriatrician and professor of medicine at the University of Rochester School of Medicine, where he directs the Highland Hospital Center for Healthy Aging. Dr. Hall was president of the College in 2001-2002. The other new member of the commission is Willis D. Gradison Jr., MBA, a scholar in residence in the Health Sector Management Program at Duke University's Fuqua School of Business. Their terms will expire in 2014.
Congress established MedPAC in 1997 to analyze access to care, cost and quality of care, and other key issues affecting Medicare, according to a GAO press release. MedPAC advises Congress on payments to health plans participating in the Medicare Advantage program and clinicians in Medicare's traditional fee-for-service programs.