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 102 STAT. 500

Appropriation authorization.

38 USC 612 note.

PUBLIC LAW 100-322—MAY 20, 1988

100 miles from the nearest Veterans' Administration health-care facility are furnished health-care services at a location convenient to their residences by Veterans' Administration employees furnishing such services through the use of appropriately equipped mobile health-care clinics. The pilot program shall be conducted for a period of not less than 24 months. (2) The pilot program authorized by paragraph (1) shall be carried out using at least two mobile health-care clinics in each of the following geographic areas of the United States: the Northeast, the Midwest, the South, and the West. Q)) FUNDING.—There is authorized to be appropriated $5,000,000 for each of fiscal years 1989 and 1990 in order to carry out this section. No funds may be used for the pilot program unless specifically appropriated for that purpose. (c) EVALUATION.—In carrying out the pilot program, the Administrator shall evaluate the efficacy and cost-effectiveness of furnishing care to eligible veterans through the use of mobile health-care clinics. (d) REPORTS.—Not later than 20 months after the first health-care service under the pilot program is furnished, the Administrator shall submit to the Committees on Veterans' Affairs of the Senate and House of Representatives an interim report on the implementation, operation, and results of the first 17 months' experience under the pilot program. Not later than 27 months after the beginning of the pilot program, the Administrator shall submit to such committees a final such report. Each such report shall include the following: (1) Information on the health-care services that were furnished under such pilot program and a detailed specification of the costs of furnishing such services. (2) Information describing the veterans who were furnished services under the pilot program, including a detailed description with respect to service connection, age, prior access to and use of Veterans' Administration care and services, and the financial need of such veterans. (3) The preliminary or final results of the Administrator's evaluation. (4) Any plans for administrative action, and any recommendations for legislation, that the Administrator considers appropriate to include in the report. SEC. 114. MODIFICATION OF REPORT ON CARE FURNISHED TO VETERANS HAVING CHRONIC MENTAL ILLNESS DISABILITIES. (a) REPORT ON INSTITUTIONAL CARE FURNISHED MENTALLY III

VETERANS.—The report required by section 235 of the Veterans' Benefits Improvement and Health Care Authorization Act of 1986 (Public Law 99-576; 100 Stat. 3266) shall, to the extent feasible, include (1) information on the number of veterans being treated by the Veterans' Administration for mental illness disabilities who were furnished hospital, domiciliary, or nursing home care by the Administrator during each of fiscal years 1986, 1987, and 1988, shown by type of care furnished and the duration of such care, and (2) the Administrator's analysis of any change in the numbers of veterans being furnished any type of such care during such fiscal years, with particular emphasis on the effect of the implementation by t^e Veterans' Administration of a resource allocation methodology.

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