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[CITE: 42USC11271]

 
                 TITLE 42--THE PUBLIC HEALTH AND WELFARE
 
     CHAPTER 118--ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE AND RELATED DEMENTIAS RESEARCH
 
   SUBCHAPTER IV--RESEARCH RELATING TO SERVICES FOR INDIVIDUALS WITH 
      ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE AND RELATED DEMENTIAS AND THEIR FAMILIES
 
    Part 3--Responsibilities of Health Care Financing Administration
 
Sec. 11271. Research program and plan


(a) Grants for research

    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) Preparation of plan; contents; revision

    (1) Within 6 months after November 14, 1986, 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) \1\ of this section. The plan shall--
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        (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) Consultation for preparation and revision of plan

    In preparing and revising the plan required by subsection (b) of 
this section, the Administrator of the Health Care Financing 
Administration shall consult with the Chairman of the Council and the 
heads of agencies within the Department.

(Pub. L. 99-660, title IX, Sec. 937, formerly Sec. 949A, Nov. 14, 1986, 
100 Stat. 3812; renumbered Sec. 937, Pub. L. 100-607, title I, 
Sec. 142(c)(2)(B), Nov. 4, 1988, 102 Stat. 3057.)
