HR 3756
101th Congress
House
Armed Forces and National Security
Cost effectiveness
Nursing homes
Social Welfare
Veterans' medical care
To amend title 38, United States Code, to authorize the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to conduct a five-year pilot program to demonstrate the advantages of providing veterans in nursing homes with treatment and services to maintain or reactivate living function in veterans.
Introduced: November 20, 1989
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Everywhere this bill has been
3 steps
Introduced
In committee
Reported out
Passed House
Passed Senate
To President
Became law
Dec 11, 1989
Executive Comment Requested from Veterans' Affairs.
Nov 20, 1989
Referred to the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
Nov 20, 1989
Introduced in House
Plain-English summary
Authorizes the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to conduct a five-year pilot program to demonstrate the cost-effectiveness and advantages of furnishing care to elderly veterans in nursing homes in order to treat and reactivate or maintain day-to-day living functions in those veterans. Authorizes the Secretary to set a daily rate of reimbursement for such care.
Authorizes appropriations for five fiscal years for increased costs of reimbursement of non-Department of Veterans Affairs nursing homes under such program.
Requires the Secretary to submit interim and final reports to the Congress concerning the effectiveness of the pilot program.
What's happening now
Executive Comment Requested from Veterans' Affairs.
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