Examining Health Care Mergers in Pennsylvania
Field Hearing
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Agenda
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
Witnesses
Panel I
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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