Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services, in consultation with specified agencies, to conduct at least ten demonstration projects to determine the feasibility of providing for alternative benefits for individuals entitled to Medicare benefits who are diagnosed as suffering from Alzheimer's disease or a related memory disorder.
Directs the Secretary, in conducting such projects, to consider providing alternative benefits: (1) that encompass a range of outpatient services; and (2) in a manner that is analogous to the manner in which benefits for hospice care are made available under Medicare. Limits the cost of each such project.
Introduced in Senate
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
Committee on Finance requested executive comment from OMB, Treasury Department, Health and Human Services Department.
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