due influence or unfair advantage. (3) Members of the independent payment advisory board.— (A) In general.— Paragraph (1) shall apply to a member of the Independent Payment Advisory Board under section 1899A. [11 (B) Agencies and congress.— For purposes of paragraph (1), the agency in which the individual described in subparagraph (A

block, serious, moral and compassionate discussions of the difficult issues raised by high-tech medicine. Or take the health-care law's creation of the Independent Payment Advisory Board, known as IPAB. It's a 15- member body charged with finding ways of cutting the costs of treatment under Medicare. Congress would have the final say