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            United  States General Accounting Office

                     Washington,  D.C.  20548


                                         FOR RELEASE ON DELIVERY
                                         Expected at  9:00 a.m. EST
                                         Monday, March 15,  1982


                 Statement of Michael Zimmerman

        Associate Director, Human Resources Division

                         Before the

                   Subcommittee on Health

                Senate Committee on  Finance

  On the Data Used by the Health Care Financing Administration

      in Preparing  Its Proposal to Establish a Prospective

  Reimbursement System for the End Stage Renal Disease  Program


     Mr. Chairman and Members of the Subcommittee, we are pleased

to be here today to discuss our ongoing review of reimbursement

issues in Medicare's end stage renal disease  (ESRD) program.  As

requested, our discussion will focus on the data used by the

Health Care Financing Administration  (HCFA) in preparing its

recent proposal to establish a prospective reimbursement system

for paying for home and outpatient dialysis treatments under the

ESRD program.  We will also provide some information on physician

compensation in the ESRD program where the related costs are

generally reflected in the prospective payment rates and briefly

discuss the role of ESRD networks in administering the program.

We will be issuing a report on our overall review.




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