S.Amdt. 3088

SA 3088. Ms. COLLINS (for herself and Mr. Warner) submitted an
amendment intended to be proposed to amendment SA 2786 proposed by Mr.
Reid (for himself, Mr. Baucus, Mr. Dodd, and Mr. Harkin) to the bill
H.R. 3590, to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to modify the
first-time homebuyers credit in the case of members of the Armed Forces
and certain other Federal employees, and for other purposes; which was
ordered to lie on the table; as follows:

On page 1265, between lines 8 and 9, insert the following:

SEC. 4307. ASSESSMENT OF MEDICARE COST-INTENSIVE DISEASES AND
CONDITIONS.

(a) Initial Assessment.--
(1) In general.--The Secretary of Health and Human Services
(in this section referred to as the ``Secretary'') shall
conduct an assessment of the diseases and conditions that are
the most cost-intensive for the Medicare program under title
XVIII of the Social Security Act and, to the extent possible,
assess the diseases and conditions that could become cost-
intensive for the Medicare program in the future.
(2) Report.--Not later than January 1, 2011, the Secretary
shall transmit a report to the Committees on Energy and
Commerce, Ways and Means, and Appropriations of the House of
Representatives and the Committees on Health, Education,
Labor and Pensions, Finance, and Appropriations of the Senate
on the assessment conducted under paragraph (1). Such report
shall--
(A) include the assessment of current and future trends of
cost-intensive diseases and conditions described in such
paragraph;
(B) address whether current research priorities are
appropriately addressing current and future cost-intensive
conditions so identified;
(C) include the input of relevant research agencies,
including the National Institutes of Health, the Agency for
Healthcare Research and Quality, and the Food and Drug
Administration; and
(D) include recommendations concerning research in the
Department of Health and Human Services that should be funded
to improve the prevention, treatment, or cure of such cost-
intensive diseases and conditions.
(b) Updates of Assessment.--Not later than January 1, 2013,
and biennially thereafter, the Secretary shall--
(1) review and update the assessment and recommendations
described in subsection (a)(1); and
(2) submit a report described in subsection (a)(2) to the
Committees specified in subsection (a)(2) on such updated
assessment and recommendations.
(c) CMS Medicare Cost-Intensive Research Fund.--
(1) In general.--There is established in the Treasury of
the United States a fund to be known as the ``CMS Medicare
Cost-Intensive Research Fund'', in this subsection referred
to as the ``Fund''. The Administrator of the Centers for
Medicare & Medicaid Services shall administer the Fund. The
Fund shall consist of such amounts as may be appropriated or
credited to such Fund for the purposes described in paragraph
(2). The Administrator shall not transfer appropriations to
or from other relevant research agencies, including the
National Institutes of Health, the Agency for Healthcare
Research and Quality, and the Food and Drug Administration.
(2) Purposes of fund.--From amounts in the Fund, the
Administrator of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services
shall make available, without further appropriation, grants,
contracts, and other funding mechanisms, as recommended by
the reports under this subsection, to facilitate research
into the prevention, treatment, or cure of cost-intensive
diseases and conditions under the Medicare program.
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