A bill to provide for a demonstration project to examine whether having a respiratory care practitioner available to provide assistance in a home setting would reduce the overall costs under medicare of providing care to pulmonary disease patients by decreasing hospitalization rates for such patients.

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Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services to conduct and report to the Congress on a demonstration project to examine whether having respiratory care practitioners provide services in home settings would improve the quality, and reduce the costs, of care under the Medicare program (title XVIII of the Social Security Act) for patients who use respiratory home care equipment. Authorizes appropriations.

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• Introduced in Senate (text)

  Introduced in Senate · EN

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• Introduced in Senate

  summary · EN · 21 May 1991

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