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For Immediate Release: September 24, 1998
Contact: Rusty Jabour

Medicare Commission’s Graduate Medical Education (GME) Study Group to Meet on September 29

WASHINGTON (September 24) -- The Graduate Medical Education (GME) Study Group of the National Bipartisan Commission on the Future of Medicare will meet on Tuesday, September 29, in Washington, D.C., Sen. John Breaux (D-La.) and Rep. Bill Thomas (R-Calif.) announced today.

The meeting is open to the public. The 17-members of the national Commission established three task forces -- Modeling, Reform, and Restructuring -- and the GME Study Group to examine various aspects of Medicare and to advise the full Commission about their findings and analyses.

The Graduate Medical Education Study Group is examining Medicare’s role in GME and is chaired by Commissioner Bill Frist.

Topics:           GME funding in children’s hospitals and for advanced practice
                       nurses
Speakers:       David S. Weiner, President/CEO, Children’s Hospital, Boston, MA
                       Linda Aiken, Ph.D., Trustee Professor of Nursing, University of
                       Pennsylvania
Date / Time: Tuesday, September 29, 1998 / 11:00 a.m. - 12:00 noon
Location:       U.S. Capitol, Room SC-5, Washington, D.C.