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             United  States General Accounting Office

                         Washington, D.C.  20548

                                       FOR RELEASE ON DELIVERY
                                       EXPECTED AT 2 P.M. EDT
                                       FRIDAY, JULY 12, 1985

                           STATEMENT OF

              MICHAEL  ZIMMERMAN, ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR

                    HUMAN  RESOURCES DIVISION

                            BEFORE THE

                     SUBCOMMITTEE  ON HEALTH
                                                          127379
                      COMMITTEE  ON FINANCE

                      UNITED  STATES SENATE

                 ON S.837,  S.1323, AND H.R. 1868



Mr. Chairman and Members of  the Subcommittee:

     We are pleased to be  here today to present our views on

certain bills--8.837, S.1323,  and H.R. 1868--that would give

beneficiaries protection under  the health care programs of the

Social Security Act from unfit health  care practitioners and

entities.  Basically, each bill  consolidates the act's current

legislative authorities for, and provides  new authorities to,

the Department of Health and Human  Services (HHS) to exclude

unfit and unethical health care practitioners  and entities from

participation in the act's health  care programs.

     In March we testified before  the House Committees on Energy

and Commerce and on Ways and Means  in support of a similar bill,

H.R. 1370.  The provisions of H.R.  1370 were incorporated and


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