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 100 STAT. 3812

PUBLIC LAW 99-660—NOV. 14, 1986 DISSEMINATION

Research and development. 42 USC 11262.

SEC. 948. The Director of the National Center for Health Services Research and Health Care Technology Assessment shall disseminate the results of research conducted under this subpart to appropriate professional entities and to the public. AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS

42 USC 11263.

SEC. 949. To carry out this subpart, there are authorized to be appropriated $2,000,000 for each of fiscal years 1988 through 1991. Subpart 4—Responsibilities of the Health Care Financing Administration i

Grants. 42 USC 11271.

RESEARCH PROGRAM AND PLAN

SEC. 949A. (a) The Administrator of the National Health Care Financing Administration shall conduct, or make grants for the conduct of, research relevant to appropriate services for individuals with Alzheimer's disease and related dementias and their families. (b)(1) Within 6 months after the date of enactment of this Act, the Administrator of the Health Care Financing Administration shall prepare and transmit to the Chairman of the Council a plan for research to be conducted under (a). The plan shall— (A) provide for a determination of the types of services required by individuals with Alzheimer's disease and related dementias and their families to allow such individuals to remain living at home or in a community-based setting; (B) provide for a determination of the costs of providing needed services to individuals with Alzheimer's disease and related dementias and their families, including the expenditures for institutional, home, and community-based services and the source of payment for such expenditures; (C) provide for an assessment of the adequacy of benefits provided through the Medicare and Medicaid programs and through private health insurance for needed services for individuals with Alzheimer's disease and related dementias and their families; and (D) provide for a determination of the costs to the Medicare and Medicaid programs and to private health insurers (if available) of providing covered benefits to individuals with Alzheimer's disease and related dementias and their families. (2) Within one year after transmitting the plan required under paragraph (1), and annually thereafter, the Administrator of the Health Care Financing Administration shall prepare and transmit to the Chairman of the Council such revisions of such plan as the Administrator considers appropriate. (c) In preparing and revising the plan required by subsection (b), the Administrator of the Health Care Financing Administration shall consult with the Chairman of the Council and the heads of agencies within the Department. DISSEMINATION

42 USC 11272.

SEC. 949B. The Administrator of the Health Care Financing Administration shall disseminate the results of research conducted

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