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PUBLIC LAW 90-248-JAN. 2, 1968

(b) The Council shall be appointed by the Secretary during 1968 without regard to the provisions of title 5, United States Code, governing appointments in the competitive service and shall consist of 12 persons who shall, to the extent possible, represent organizations of employers and employees in equal numbers, and represent self-employed persons and the public. (c) The Council is authorized to engage such technical assistance, including actuarial services, as may be required to carry out its functions, and the Secretary shall, in addition, make available to such Council such secretarial, clerical, and other assistance and such actuarial and other pertinent data prepared by the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare as it may require to carry out such functions. (d) Members of the Council, while serving on the business of the Council (inclusive of travel time), shall receive compensation at rates fixed by the Secretary, but not exceeding $100 per day and, while so serving away from their homes or regular places of business, they may be allowed travel expenses, including per diem in lieu of subsistence, as authorized by section 5703 of title 5, United States Code, for persons in the Government employed intermittently. (e) The Council shall make findings on the unmet need of the disabled for health insurance, on the costs involved in providing the disabled with insurance protection to cover the cost'of hospital and medical services, and on the ways of financing this insurance. The Council shall submit a report of its findings to the Secretary not later than January 1, 1969, together with recommendations on how such protection should be financed and, if such financing is to be accomplished through the trust funds established under title X VIII of the Social Security Act, on the extent to which each of such trust funds should bear the cost of such financing. Such report shall thereupon be transmitted to the Congress and to the Boards of Trustees created by sections 1817(b) and 1841(b) of the Social Security Act. After the date of transmittal to the Congress of the report, the Council shall cease to exist.

80 Stat. 417. 5 USC 3301 et seq.

Compensation, trdvel e x p e n s e s.

80 Stat. 499.

79 Stat. 291. 42 USC 1395\395ll. Report to Congress. 42 USC 13951, 1395t. Expiration date.

STUDY TO DETERMINE F E A S I B I L I T Y OF I N C L U S I O N OF CERTAIN ADDITIONAL SERVICES U N D E R PART B OF TITLE X VIII OF THE SOCIAL SECURITY ACT

SEC. 141. The Secretary shall make a study relating to the inchision under the supplementary medical insurance program (part B of title X VIII of the Social Security Act) of services of additional types of licensed practitioners performing health services in independent practice. The Secretary shall make a report to the Congress prior to January 1, 1969, of his finding with respect to the need for covering, under the supplementary medical insurance program, any of the various types of services such practitioners perform and the costs to such program of covering such additional services, and shall make recommendations as to the priority and method for covering these services and the measures that should be adopted to protect the health and safety of the individuals to whom such services would be furnished.

42 USC 139i5j1395w. Report to Congress.

PROVISIONS FOR B E N E F I T S U N D E R PART A OF TITLE X VIII OF THE SOCIAL SECURITY ACT FOR SERVICES TO P A T I E N T S ADMITTED PRIOR TO 1968 TO CERTAIN HOSPITALS

SEC. 142. (a) Notwithstanding any provision of title X VIII of the Social Security Act, an individual who is entitled to hospital insurance benefits under section 226 of such Act may, subject to subsections (b) and (c), receive, on the basis of an itemized bill, reimbursement for charges to him i o r inpatient hospital services (as defined in section

79 Stat. 290. 42 USC 426.

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