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             United  States General Accounting Office

                         Washington, D.C.

                                       FOR RELEASE ON DELIVERY
                                       Expected at 9:30 AM. EDT
                                       Friday, May 10, 1985

                           STATEMENT OF

              MICHAEL  ZIMMERMAN, ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR

                    HUMAN  RESOURCES DIVISION

                           BEFORE THE

                   SPECIAL COMMITTEE  ON AGING

                      UNITED STATES  SENATE

                               ON

         MEDICARE PAYMENT RATES FOR  PACEMAKER SURGERIES

Mr. Chairman an4 members of the Committee:

     We are pleased to be here today to discuss  the report we

prepared for the Committee entitled Medicare's  Policies and

Prospective Payment Rates for Cardiac Pacemaker  Surgeries Need

Review and Revision  (GAO/HRD-85-39, Feb. 26, 1985).  In prepar-

ing the report we reviewed four major manufacturers who  account

for about 80 percent of domestic pacemaker  sales. We  also

gathered data on all pacemaker surgeries performed at  12 se-

lected hospitals and compared these data to the  data used by

the Department of Health and Human Serv±ces'  (HHS') Health Care

Financing Administration to establish Medicare's hospital  pro-

spective payment rates for pacemaker surgery.





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