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WASHINGTON RLPaRr. Cm r Charles to s ucceed M one-time executive o been afraid to challenge industry. For that reason ment of his stature within Pre-election recrrts true. Some fle be h tu rn to. Most controversy was aroused by the firing of Robert Q. "Marston MD; as ., Director of t' Nal Institutes of Health. About 1,000 g ston s caust;r & deman ncJ voice in selecti Sur eon Gerw' 1 Jesse L. Steinfeld M Services &.MentaHealth Admi Meanwhile, w ncami c Oppr,rtun i ty has chief of HEW's Social NEWS d 0 reyo;,Kiis a family practi r admission to a hospital ..» or any other health care service "which will consist of extended or costly courses of treatment" are medicai ly necessary & can~"t be provided more econam.ically elsewhere In case haspitatizat.ian. ,There is plent of authnrit In this law for paid agents of gav"t to challenge th~ medtcal decision c"~physcia;ns. Sec. 1152 re u i res PSROs to keep prof i tes of pat i ents & phys ici ans. Thi s sec- tion also authorizes PSRROs to "examine the pertinent records of any practiti _ or provider of health services..." It seems clear that this section empowers p agents of gc"v"t to examine pa,tient records in Mps caffi.ces in the case of Medicare ~ Medicaid patients who are admitted to hospitals or other health care i.nstituticans. aw part r~d I ble cos reimbursa part of incurred cost health services..." What is considered unnecessar will certainly be a bureaucratic determination. iscussions o der the Medtcare law 6, to those actually be unnecessary in t ive the President Nixon executive shuf considerable speculation that he may `t Sec"y for Hea1th». Dr. Edwards tivist FDA chief & has not ssion -&the pharmaceutica1 ntraversial but not, apparently ation. Nixon Intended to clean house in•the executive agencies he top MI)s were fi red & some left because they wanted HEW Commission on Ma] era of in~re;se n malpractice sui of ccammissirrn were not unamimous. quired to establish patient grievance machin gency fees be developed; methods be found to to resolve disputes;..state legislatures alter rules. o : A former member of AMA Board of Trustees ed he is r; tiring #r6m a0ve mediM although he was trained in specialty of James R. Kimm~, MD, Executive Director of Am c~in staff o~"""W""sccansin Gov. Patrick J. 1.uce Wi l l iam BarclaParsons ,~1~; 84, r~~.i red of ys~ i~n~ 9 Sur,~sc~ns. .. Medenca 1 nc. reported mw ai~n Pa`rk axa Hos ital now under construction at uled to open r.n anuary, 1915. . M & Alcon Laboratories Inc amining possibility of divesting itsel 6 f te part cr Law instruments. .» Goldigger is girl who doesn't l owns i t. -6Q3. Another part of that law has large SROs on physici' ans. It applies i th the PSRO program, ""excluding therefrom any i cient de1 ivery 9f ir0409d, scient.tsts wrote Nixc,n• protesting Dr. Mar of his successar» quit & so did 1lernoln_Wi iberatian that chief cause. -seeki ng 1awyers. Ew"i nd i ngs institutions be re- " te rafcontin- arbitrati.on vidence. wn- M. D, Coos N3ay, wn•was in gyneccr•1 ocdy. . . has resicJnedto . . Died: al umiaia U Col lee of act to manage new 5 Hospital t Worth, said It Is ex Co. subsidiary that makes man's company unless he