(c) GRANTS.—The Secretary of Health and Human
Services shall award grants to qualified organizations and
institutions to enable such organizations and institutions
to provide professional education for physicians and allied
health professionals in elder fall prevention.
SEC. 6. DEMONSTRATION PROJECTS.
Subject to the availability of appropriations, the Sec-
retary of Health and Human Services, acting through the
Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Preven-
tion and in consultation with the Director of the Agency
for Healthcare Research and Quality, shall carry out the
following:
(1) Oversee and support demonstration and re-
search projects to be carried out by the National
Safety Council in the following areas:
(A) A multi-State demonstration project
assessing the utility of targeted fall risk screen-
ing and referral programs.
(B) Programs targeting newly-discharged
fall victims who are at a high risk for second
falls, which shall include, but not be limited to
modification projects for elders with multiple
sensory impairments, video and web-enhanced
fall prevention programs for caregivers in multi-
family housing settings, and development of
technology to prevent and detect falls.
(C) Private sector and public-private part-
nerships, involving home remodeling, home de-
sign and remodeling (in accordance with accept-
ed building codes and standards) and nursing
home and hospital patient supervision.
(2)(A) Provide grants to qualified organizations
and institutions to design and carry out fall preven-
tion programs in residential and institutional set-
tings.
(B) Provide one or more grants to one or more
qualified applicants in order to carry out a multi-
State demonstration project to implement fall pre-
vention programs targeted toward multi-family resi-
dential settings with high concentrations of elders,
including identifying high risk populations, evalu-
ating residential facilities, conducting screening to
identify high risk individuals, providing pre-fall
counseling, coordinating services with health care
and social service providers and coordinating post-
fall treatment and rehabilitation.
(C) Provide one or more grants to qualified ap-
plicants to conduct evaluations of the effectiveness of
the demonstration projects in this section.
SEC. 7. REVIEW OF REIMBURSEMENT POLICIES.
(a) IN GENERAL.—The Secretary of Health and
Human Services shall undertake a review of the effects
of falls on the costs of the Medicare and Medicaid pro-
grams and the potential for reducing costs by expanding
services covered by these two programs. This review shall
include a review of the reimbursement policies of medicare
and medicaid in order to determine if additional fall-re-
lated services should be covered or reimbursement guide-
lines should be modified.
(b) REPORT.—Not later than 18 months after the
date of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary of Health
and Human Services shall submit to the Congress a report
describing the findings of the Secretary in conducting the
review under subsection (a).
SEC. 8. AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATION.
In order to carry out the provisions of this Act, there
are authorized to be appropriated—
(1) to carry out the national public education
provisions described in section 4(1), $5,000,000 for
each of fiscal years 2003 through 2005;
(2) to carry out the State public education cam-
paign provisions of section 4(2), $8,000,000 for each
of fiscal years 2003 through 2005;
(3) to carry out research projects described in
section 5, $10,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2003
through 2005; and
(4) to carry out the demonstration projects de-
scribed in section 6(1), $7,000,000 for each of fiscal
years 2003 through 2005; and
(5) to carry out the demonstration and research
projects described in section 6(2), $8,000,000 for
each of fiscal years 2003 through 2005.
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