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 PUBLIC LAW 99-661—NOV. 14, 1986

100 STAT. 3897

benefits under the program for covered beneficiaries under the jurisdiction of such Secretary for that quarter. "(d) EXPENDITURE OF AMOUNTS FROM ACCOUNT BY SERVICE SEC-

RETARIES.—The Secretary of a military department shall provide medical and dental care to covered beneficiaries under the jurisdiction of the Secretary for a fiscal year quarter from amounts appropriated to the Secretary and from amounts from the account made available for that quarter to the Secretary by the Secretary of Defense. If the Secretary of a military department exhausts the amounts from the account made available to the Secretary for a fiscal year quarter, the Secretary shall transfer to the account from amounts appropriated to the Secretary an amount sufficient to provide medical and dental care to covered beneficiaries under the jurisdiction of the Secretary for the remainder of the fiscal year quarter. "(e) REGULATIONS.—The Secretary of Defense shall prescribe regulations to carry out this section. "(f) DEFINITIONS.—In this section: "(1) The term 'account' means the Military Health Care Account established in subsection (a). "(2) The term 'program' means the Civilian Health and Medical Program of the Uniformed Services.

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"§ 1101. Diagnosis-related groups 10 USC 1101. "(a) ESTABLISHMENT OF DRGS.—The Secretary of Defense, after consultation with the other administering Secretaries, shall establish by regulation the use of diagnosis-related groups as the primary criteria for allocation of resources to facilities of the uniformed services. V-. '• >: "(b) EXCEPTION FOR MOBILIZATION MISSIONS.—Diagnosis-related

groups shall not be used to allocate resources to the facilities of the uniformed services to the extent that such resources are required by such facilities for mobilization missions. "(c) CONTENT OF REGULATIONS.—(1) Such regulations shall establish a system of diagnosis-related groups similar to the system established under section 1886(d)(4) of the Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. 1395ww(d)(4)). Such regulations shall include the following: "(1) A classification of inpatient treatments by diagnosisrelated groups and a similar classification of outpatient treatment. "(2) A methodology for classifying specific treatments within such groups. "(3) An appropriate weighting factor for each such diagnosisrelated group which reflects the relative resources used by a facility of a uniformed service with respect to treatments classified within that group compared to treatments classified within other groups.". (2) The table of sections at the beginning of such chapter is amended by adding at the end the following new items: "1096. Military-civilian health services partnership program. "1097. Contracts for medical care for retirees, dependents, and survivors: alternative delivery of health care. "1098. Incentives for participation in cost-effective health care plans. "1099. Health care enrollment system. "1100. Military Health Care Account. "1101. Diagnosis-related groups.".

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