A bill to provide for demonstration projects whereby medicare patients receiving chemotherapy or radiation therapy may be housed and boarded in setting other than inpatient hospital facilities.

Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services to carry out at least three demonstration projects whereby Medicare patients receiving chemotherapy may be housed in facilities other than inpatient acute care hospital facilities. States that the accessibility of such alternative facilities to such patients for both ordinary and emergency treatment shall be considered in determining the appropriateness of such alternative facilities.