“Hospital Group Purchasing: Are the Industry's Reforms Sufficient to Ensure Competition?”

TIME CHANGE TO 2:00 p.m.

The hearing scheduled by the Senate Committee on the Judiciary Subcommittee on Antitrust, Competition Policy and Consumer Rights on "Hospital Group Purchasing: Are the Industry's Reforms Sufficient to Ensure Competition?" for Wednesday, March 15, 2006 in Room 226 of the Senate Dirksen Office Building will begin at 2:00 p.m. rather than the previously scheduled time of 2:30 p.m.

Senator DeWine will preside.

By order of the Chairman

March 8, 2006

NOTICE OF SUBCOMMITTEE HEARING

The Senate Committee on the Judiciary Subcommittee on Antitrust, Competition Policy and Consumer Rights has scheduled a hearing on "Hospital Group Purchasing: Are the Industry's Reforms Sufficient to Ensure Competition?" for Wednesday, March 15, 2006 at 2:30 p.m. in Room 226 of the Senate Dirksen Office Building.

Senator DeWine will preside.

By order of the Chairman

Tentative Witness List
Hearing before the

Senate Judiciary Committee
Subcommittee on Antitrust, Competition Policy and Consumer Rights

on

"Hospital Group Purchasing: Are the Industry's Reforms

Sufficient to Ensure Competition?"
Wednesday, March 15, 2006
2:30 p.m. Senate Dirksen Building, Room 226

PANEL I

Richard J. Bednar
Coordinator
Healthcare Group Purchasing Industry Initiative
Washington, DC

Mark B. Leahey
Executive Director
Medical Device Manufacturers Association
Washington, DC

S. Prakash Sethi
Professor
Baruch College
The City University of New York
New York, NY

Mina Ubbing
President and CEO
Fairfield Medical Center
Lancaster, OH