Medicare - Professional Standards Review Organzations.

File — Box: 38, Folder: 4

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Scope and Contents

Frank Hewlett, in a Salt Lake Tribune article of July 28, 1974 states that: "Senator Bennett's most recent major accomplishment stems from his 1972 Amendment to the Social Security Act which directed the setting up of Professional Standards Review Organizations throughout the country to provide for the monitouring of the medical care given Medicaid and Medicare patients by boards of local physicians." Although this amendment originally drew the wrath of the AMA, the organization, under new leadership, found the program to its liking. This is one of the few items in the collection which shows in some depth, Bennett's ideas on a particular issue.

January 23, 1974 - First draft reply to a Wall Street Journal editorial on PSRO provisions of Public Law 92-603.
May 8, 1974 - Senate Committee on Finance background material in PSRO's.

Dates

1974-1976

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