SHARING OF SPECIALIZED MEDICAL RESOURCES.

SEC. 202. SHARING OF SPECIALIZED MEDICAL RESOURCES. (a) Expansion of Purpose.— Section 5051 of title 38, United States Code, is amended by striking out “hospitals” both places it appears in the first sentence and inserting in lieu thereof “health-care facilities”. (b) Expansion of Authority.— Section 5053 of such title is amended— (1) in subsection (a)— (A) by striking out “hospitals” the first place it appears and all that follows through “community” and inserting in lieu thereof “health-care facilities and other health-care facilities (including organ banks, blood banks, or similar institutions), research centers, or medical schools”; and (B) by striking out the last sentence; and (2) in subsection (b)— 104 STAT. 439 (A) in the first sentence, by striking out “a charge” and all that follows and inserting in lieu thereof “a methodology that provides appropriate flexibility to the heads of the facilities concerned to establish an appropriate reimbursement rate after taking into account local conditions and needs and the actual costs to the providing facility of the resource involved.”; and (B) in the second sentence, by inserting before the period “and to funds that have been allotted to the facility that furnished the resource involved”.