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DATE: Thursday, Feb. 8, 1996 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: HCFA Press Office (202) 690-6145
HHS Secretary Donna E. Shalala announced today that James G. Sleep of Chicago, Ill., has been appointed to the Provider Reimbursement Review Board.
The five-member board considers administrative appeals from Medicare service providers who are dissatisfied with their amount of program payment. Board members generally serve three-year terms.
Sleep, a certified public accountant, was employed for 15 years by the national Blue Cross and Blue Shield Association. As director of the chain organizations department, he worked with Blue Cross plans to standardize Medicare reimbursement throughout the Blue Cross system. A chain organization is multiple facilities, such as hospitals, owned by a holding company.
"Jim Sleep brings over 20 years of experience in Medicare reimbursement principles to the Provider Reimbursement Review Board," said Bruce C. Vladeck, administrator of the Health Care Financing Administration, the HHS agency that directs the Medicare program. "He has a special expertise in the area of chain organizations and other multiple facility groups, and should be a valued addition to the board."
More recently, Sleep has directed his own company, Megas
Inc. in Chicago, serving as a consultant to providers on various Medicare reimbursement matters.
Sleep is the author of a book entitled, "Chain Organizations and Other Multiple Facility Groups," which is used by many legal and public accounting firms that deal with health care issues.
Sleep received his bachelor's degree in business administration from Northwestern University. Sleep was an accountant from 1966 to 1975 at the accounting firm of Murphy, Lanier and Quinn in Chicago.
Sleep fills the vacancy left by James Roark, whose term expired in 1995.