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Thursday, October 8, 1987 / University Daily Kansan
Medicare to have new plan
Telephone appeals process will be voluntary for recipients
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — A telephone appeals process for Medicare recipients who content they have been unfairly denied benefits will be voluntary and will not take the place of face-to-face hearings, a Reagan administration official said yesterday.
"I want to make very clear that telephone hearings will be strictly optional and voluntary," William Roper, head of the Health Care Financing Administration, said in testimony for a house hearing.
The assurance came 10 days after The New York Times quoted a summary of the plan as saying the agency would use telephone hearings to the maximum extent possible, for
at least 75 percent of an anticipated 24.000 anpeals a year.
The Times also quoted Roper as saying face-to-face hearings would be permitted in exceptional cases where someone didn't have access to a telephone.
A spokesman for the Health Care Financing Administration, Bob Hardy, said the plan is in its formative stages. "It is not at all concrete or firm," he said. "What you probably had there (in the summary) was a straw man, something out there for people to shoot at. It was premature to say HCFA had a solid document."
Roper appeared before the House Judiciary subcommittee on administration to defend several aspects of his agency's new Medicare appeals plan.
Its major components are increased use of telephone hearings and the hiring of an in-house corps of administrative law judges, centrally located in Baltimore. to handle appeals.
The plan came under attack on both fronts. Some witnesses argued that elderly Medicare recipients would not receive a fair hearing on the telephone. Others contended the in-house judges would have an inherent conflict of interest.
The primary effect of the administrative law judge corps proposal "will be to produce decisions on Medicare appeals that are biased toward the agency and against elderly beneficiaries," Sally Hart Wilson, an attorney with the National Senior Citizens Law Center, said in her testimony.
On Campus
**Latin American studies brown bag**
lunch featuring Rodrigo Fernandez,
Higher Council of Central American
universities, at 11:30 a.m.
to 2:30 p.m., **Strong Storm**.
"Grant Proposals and Budget Development I," a sandwich seminar sponsored by the office of research support and grants administration, is scheduled at noon today in Parlor A in the Kansas Union.
"The Use of Capsular Glucose Polymer as an Energy Reserve by Cellulomonas Flavigina," a microbiology lecture by Kai Voepel, is scheduled at 12:30 p.m. today in 6031 Haworth Hall.
A Retirees Club birthday party
and program is scheduled at 2:30 p.m. today in the Summerfield Room in the Adams Alumni Center.
University Senate is scheduled to meet at 3:30 p.m. today in Alderson Auditorium in the Kansas Union.
- Tryouts and practice for the KU Men's Soccer Club are scheduled at 5 p.m. today at Shenk Complex, 23rd and Iowa streets.
A Latin American Solidarity and
Bain Latin American solidarity and
Bain Latino
"Ending Hunger by the End of the
Scott Carpenter/KANSAN
The Jayhawk mural in the Hawk's Nest at the Kansas Union will be destroyed because of the Union renovation. The mural is 37 years old.
Century: an Idea Whose Time Has Come," a lecture by Marty Stoeleti and Paul Debarthe, briefing leaders for The Hunger Project, and sponsored by KU Students Against Hunger, is scheduled at 7 p.m. today in the Pine Room in the Kansas Union. ■ An organizational meeting of KU Students for Dukakis is scheduled at 7 p.m. today in the West Gallery in the Kansas Union.
Jayhawks for UNICF meeting is
scaled up to the p.m. time in
today's edition in the Kansas City
 newspaper.
KU Fencing Club is scheduled at:
8:30 p.m. today at Robinson Center
Jayhawk
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Thompson, who also is a painter, said such an operation would be enormously expensive.
"It's normally only done with extraordinarily valuable art pieces," he said. "It's sad, but wall paintings tend to go down with the walls."
Although the Jayhawk mural has to go, Long said that preserving the existing art and design of the Union is an important part of its renovation.
"For example, the mosaic tile Jayhawk in front of the cafeteria will stay where it is," Long said.
The Union acknowledges the emotional value of the mural for Bowers, he added.
"We have taken pictures of the
children sent then to Bowers in
East Glastonbury."
Rather than be nostalgic about the doomed mural, Thompson suggested that the Union look for someone to make a new one.
"We have close to 800 art students in the department, most of whom are qualified to do a job like that," he said.
On the Record
Two diamond rings valued at $250 were taken between 5:30 p.m. and 10:30 p.m. Sept. 21 from the swimming pool area at Robinson Center, KU police reported.
A concrete saw valued at $700 was taken between 10 p.m. Sunday and 7:30 a.m. Tuesday from the bed of a pickup truck in the 200 block of Compton Square, Lawrence police reported.
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