---
kind: "section"
citation: "42 U.S.C. § 11271"
title: "42"
title_heading: "The Public Health and Welfare"
number: "11271"
heading: "Research program and plan"
release: "119-102"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/42/11271"
units:
  - "Chapter 118 — Alzheimer’s Disease and Related Dementias Research"
  - "Subchapter IV — Research Relating to Services for Individuals with Alzheimer’s Disease and Related Dementias and Their Families"
  - "Part 3"
---

# §11271. Research program and plan

- (a) **Grants for research—** The [Administrator](/usc/42/4005.md?p=1) of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services shall conduct, or make grants for the conduct of, research relevant to appropriate services for individuals with Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias and their [families](/usc/42/12704.md?p=11).
- (b) **Preparation of plan; contents; revision—**
  - (1) Within 6 months after November 14, 1986, the [Administrator](/usc/42/4005.md?p=1) of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services shall prepare and transmit to the Chairman of the [Council](/usc/42/300f.md?p=9) a plan for research to be conducted under (a).[^1] The plan shall—
    - (A) provide for a determination of the types of services required by individuals with Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias and their [families](/usc/42/12704.md?p=11) to allow such individuals to remain living at home or in a community-based setting;
    - (B) provide for a determination of the costs of providing needed services to individuals with Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias and their [families](/usc/42/12704.md?p=11), including the expenditures for institutional, home, and community-based services and the source of payment for such expenditures;
    - (C) provide for an assessment of the adequacy of benefits provided through the Medicare and Medicaid [programs](/usc/42/274l–1.md?p=4) and through private health insurance for needed services for individuals with Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias and their [families](/usc/42/12704.md?p=11); and
    - (D) provide for a determination of the costs to the Medicare and Medicaid [programs](/usc/42/274l–1.md?p=4) and to private health insurers (if available) of providing covered benefits to individuals with Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias and their [families](/usc/42/12704.md?p=11).
  - (2) Within one year after transmitting the plan required under [paragraph (1)](#b-1), and annually thereafter, the [Administrator](/usc/42/4005.md?p=1) of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services shall prepare and transmit to the Chairman of the [Council](/usc/42/300f.md?p=9) such revisions of such plan as the [Administrator](/usc/42/4005.md?p=1) considers appropriate.
- (c) **Consultation for preparation and revision of plan—** In preparing and revising the plan required by [subsection (b)](#b), the [Administrator](/usc/42/4005.md?p=1) of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services shall consult with the Chairman of the [Council](/usc/42/300f.md?p=9) and the heads of agencies within the Department.

## Footnotes

[^1]: So in original. Probably should be preceded by “subsection”.

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 99–660, title IX, § 937, formerly § 949A, Nov. 14, 1986, 100 Stat. 3812; renumbered § 937, Pub. L. 100–607, title I, § 142(c)(2)(B), Nov. 4, 1988, 102 Stat. 3057; amended Pub. L. 108–173, title IX, § 900(e)(5)(B), Dec. 8, 2003, 117 Stat. 2373.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Amendments

2003—Subsec. (a). Pub. L. 108–173, § 900(e)(5)(B)(i), substituted “Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services” for “National Health Care Financing Administration”.

Subsec. (b)(1). Pub. L. 108–173, § 900(e)(5)(B)(ii), substituted “Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services” for “Health Care Financing Administration” in introductory provisions.

Subsecs. (b)(2), (c). Pub. L. 108–173, § 900(e)(5)(B)(iii), (iv), substituted “Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services” for “Health Care Financing Administration”.