GAO appoints three new MedPAC members

The Government Accountability Office today named three new members to the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission through April 2023.
They are: Wayne Riley, M.D., president of the State University of New York Downstate Health Sciences University in Brooklyn, who was nominated by the AHA and has more than 30 years of experience in academic medicine, hospital administration and primary care; Michael Chernew, professor of health care policy at Harvard Medical School in Boston, who will serve as chair; and Betty Rambur, chair for practice and professor of nursing at the University of Rhode Island College of Nursing in Kingston.
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