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 89 STAT. 674

Consultation.

Report to Congress.

PUBLIC LAW 94-123—OCT. 22, 1975 (B) the existing physician and dentist recruitment, selection, utilization, and promotion practices of such departments aind agencies, and (C) the degree to which the various pay systems referred to in subparagraph (A), the practices referred to in subparagraph (B), and other relevant departmental and agency practices are effective in alleviating or solving such recruitment and retention problems; and (2) a comparison of the remuneration received by physicians and dentists employed by such departments and agencies with the remuneration received by physicians and dentists in private practice or academic medicine who have equivalent professional or administrative qualifications, based upon information available through medical, dental, and health associations and other available sources. (c) In preparing their respective reports required by subsection (a) of this section, the Comptroller General and the Director of the Office of Management and Budget shall consult, to the maximum extent feasible, with each other as well as with the Administrator of Veterans' Affairs, the Secretary of Defense, the Secretary of Health, iEducation, and Welfare, the Chairman of the Civil Service Commission, and the heads of other appropriate Federal departments and agencies. (d) No later than March 1, 1977, the Comptroller General shall complete, and shall submit a report thereon to the Congress, a comprehensive investigation and analysis of recruitment and retention problems, both nationwide and geographically, of health care personnel other than physicians and dentists in the Department of Medicine and Surgery with respect to basic pay and premium and overtime pay rates. (e) The report required by subsection (d) of this section shall specify— (1) pay relationships which exist, both nationwide and geographically, between such personnel and similar employees of non-Federal health care facilities; (2) pay relationships which exist, both nationwide and geographically, among such personnel in the Department of Medicine and Surgery (including an analysis of the effect of differing pay systems); (3) the degree to which the pay relationships referred to in clauses (1) and (2) of this subsection create recruitment and retention or other personnel or related problems in the effective administration and achievement of the mission of the Department of Medicine and Surgery; (4) the degree to which existing title 38 and title 5, United States Code, authorities have been able to be exercised in a way adequate to deal with any such recruitment and retention and pay problems as to such personnel; and (5)(A) alternative suggested courses of legislative or administrative action (including proposed legislation) and cost estimates therefor, which in the judgment of the Comptroller General will alleviate or solve any such recruitment and retention and pay problems, and (B) a recommendation, and justification therefor, of which such course should be undertaken.

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