Pub. L. 100-463, tit. VIII, sec. 8058

Sec. 8058. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, during fiscal year 1989, the Department of Defense shall conduct an expanded pilot project of providing home health care as part of an individualized case-managed range of benefits that may reasonably deviate from otherwise payable types, amounts and levels of care, in up to four geographic areas containing no more than one-fourth of the Department’s beneficiaries, for dependents entitled to health care under sections 1079 and 1086 of title 10, United States Code, with the patients selected from those with exceptionally serious, 102 STAT. 2270–27long-range, costly and incapacitating physical or mental conditions defined by the Secretary of Defense as likely to benefit from the range of demonstration benefits: Provided, That although the cost may be greater in a specific case, the net benefit cost to the Department of Defense shall not exceed that which could reasonably have been expected to occur in the absence of the demonstration: Provided further, That outside of the areas selected, the home health care pilot project as directed and implemented in fiscal years 1986 and 1987 shall be continued.