Veterans Administration and Department of Defense Health Resources Sharing and Emergency Operations Act

Summary

Federal Interagency Medical Resources Sharing and Coordination Act of 1981 - Establishes the Federal Interagency Medical Resources Committee to be composed of the Secretary of Defense and the Administrator of Veterans' Affairs or their designees. 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; and (3) an agency shall be reimbursed for a medical service provided to a beneficiary of another agency. Directs the Committee to submit to the Committees on Appropriations of each House of Congress an annual report regarding interagency medical resource sharing activities.

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• Public Law (PDF)

  Public Law · EN · 5 May 1982

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• Senate agreed to House amendment with amendment

  summary · EN · 1 April 1982

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• Passed House amended

  summary · EN · 4 November 1981

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• Passed Senate amended

  summary · EN · 27 October 1981

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• Reported to Senate with amendment(s)

  summary · EN · 29 September 1981

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• Introduced in Senate

  summary · EN · 27 January 1981

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