HEALTH CARE MANAGEMENT DEMONSTRATION PROGRAM.

SEC. 733. [10 U.S.C. 1071 note] HEALTH CARE MANAGEMENT DEMONSTRATION PROGRAM. (a) Establishment.—The Secretary of Defense shall carry out a demonstration program on health care management to explore opportunities for improving the planning, programming, budgeting systems, and management of the Department of Defense health care system. (b) Test Models.—Under the demonstration program, the Secretary shall test the use of the following planning and management models: (1) A health care simulation model for studying alternative delivery policies, processes, organizations, and technologies. (2) A health care simulation model for studying long term disease management. (c) Demonstration Sites.—The Secretary shall test each model separately at one or more sites. (d) Period for Program.—The demonstration program shall begin not later than 180 days after the date of the enactment of this Act and shall terminate on December 31, 2003. (e) Report.—The Secretary of Defense shall submit a report on the demonstration program to the Committees on Armed Services of the Senate and the House of Representatives not later than March 15, 2004. The report shall include the Secretary's assessment of the value of incorporating the use of the tested planning and management models throughout the planning, programming, budgeting systems, and management of the Department of Defense health care system. (f) Funding.—Of the amount authorized to be appropriated under section 301(22), $6,000,000 shall be available for the demonstration program under this section. * * * * * * *