Federal Interagency Medical Resources Sharing and Coordination Act of 1980

Summary

Federal Interagency Medical Resources Sharing and Coordination Act of 1980 - Establishes the Federal Interagency Health Resources Committee to be composed of the Secretary of Defense and the Administrator of Veterans Affairs. Directs the Committee: (1) to evaluate the opportunities for the interagency sharing of health resources between the Department of Defense and the Veterans' Administration; (2) to prescribe policies and procedures for such interagency sharing; and (3) within 180 days after enactment of this Act, to prescribe guidelines for such interagency sharing to the directors of health care facilities of the Department and the Administration. Requires such guidelines to provide that: (1) the director of each facility shall enter into cooperative arrangements for providing health care to beneficiaries of other facilities; (2) the availability of medical care to beneficiaries of an agency other than the providing agency shall be on a referral basis; (3) an agency shall be reimbursed for a medical service provided to a beneficiary of another agency; and (4) sharing agreements shall be operative upon agreement by medical facility directors unless disapproved by an agency involved. Directs the Administration and the Department to submit to specified congressional committees an annual report regarding interagency medical resource sharing activities.

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• Passed Senate amended

  summary · EN · 29 September 1980

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• Reported to Senate with amendment(s)

  summary · EN · 22 September 1980

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• Introduced in Senate

  summary · EN · 23 July 1980

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