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Examining Health Care Mergers in Pennsylvania

Type: Field Hearing
Date:
Time: 09:30am
Location: Kirby Auditorium, National Constitution Center, 111 S. Independence Mall E, Philadelphia, PA
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NOTICE OF FULL COMMITTEE FIELD HEARING

The Senate Committee on the Judiciary has scheduled a field hearing on "Examining Health Care Mergers in Pennsylvania" for Monday, April 9, 2007 at 9:30 a.m. in Kirby Auditorium, National Constitution Center, 111 S. Independence Mall E, Philadelphia, PA.

Senator Specter will preside.

By order of the Chairman

The Highmark/Independence Blue Cross Merger:
Examining Competition and Choice in Pennsylvania's Health Insurance Markets A U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee Hearing

April 9, 2007
Kirby Auditorium
The Constitution Center
Philadelphia

Senator Arlen Specter

Senator Robert P. Casey

Governor Edward G. Rendell

Panel I

  • Joseph W. Marshall, III

    Chairman and Chief Executive Officer
    Temple University Health System
    Philadelphia, PA
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  • Lawton Burns

    James Joo-Jin Kim Professor; Professor of Health Care Systems and Management, Director, Wharton Center for Health Management and Economics
    Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania
    Philadelphia, PA
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  • Joseph A. Frick

    President and Chief Executive Officer
    Independence Blue Cross
    Philadelphia, PA
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  • Senator Don White

    R-Indiana County
    41st District, Pennsylvania
    Indiana, PA
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  • Kenneth R. Melani, M.D.

    President and Chief Executive Officer
    Highmark, Inc.
    Pittsburgh, PA
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  • C. Richard Schott, M.D.

    Vice Chairman
    Pennsylvania Medical Society
    Harrisburg, PA
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  • James R. Buckley

    President
    Delaware Valley Healthcare Coalition, Inc.
    Philadelphia, PA
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  • Pedro Rodriguez

    Executive Director
    Action Alliance of Senior Citizens
    Philadelphia, PA
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