Page:United States Statutes at Large Volume 103 Part 2.djvu/132

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103 STAT. 1142 PUBLIC LAW 101-165—NOV. 21, 1989 Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. International agreements. Health and medical care. Children and youth. Health care facilities. polyacrylonitrile (PAN) carbon fiber requirement be procured from domestic sources by 1992: Provided, That the annual goals to achieve this requirement be as follows: 15 percent of the total DOD require- ment by 1988; 15 percent of total DOD requirement by 1989; 20 percent of the total DOD requirement by 1990; 25 percent of the total DOD requirement by 1991; and 50 percent of the total DOD requirement by 1992. SEC. 9062. Of the funds appropriated, reimbursable expenses in- curred by the Department of Defense on behalf of the Soviet Union in monitoring United States implementation of the Treaty Between the United States of America and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics on the Elimination of Their Intermediate-Range or Shorter-Range Missiles ("INF Treaty"), concluded December 8, 1987, may be treated as orders received and obligation authority for the applicable appropriation, account, or fund increased accordingly. Likewise, any reimbursements received for such costs may be cred- ited to the same appropriation, account, or fund to which the expenses were charged: Provided, That reimbursements which are not received within one hundred and eighty days after submission of an appropriate request for payment shall be subject to interest at the current rate established pursuant to section 2(b)(l)(B) of the Export-Import Bank Act of 1945 (59 Stat. 526). Interest shall begin to accrue on the one hundred and eighty first day following submission of an appropriate request for payment: Provided further. That funds appropriated in this Act may be used to reimburse United States military personnel for reasonable costs of subsistence, at rates to be determined by the Secretary of Defense, incurred while accompany- ing Soviet Inspection Team members engaged in activities related to the INF Treaty: Provided further, That this provision includes only the in-country period (referred to in the INF Treaty) and is effective whether such duty is performed at, near, or away from an individ- ual's permanent duty station. SEC. 9063. During the current fiscal year, notwithstanding any other provision of law, the Department of Defense shall exclude from diagnosis related groups regulations: (a) inpatient hospital services in a hospital whose patients are predominantly under 18 years of age and (b) such services in any hospital with respect to (1) discharges involving newborns and infants who are less than 29 days old upon admission (other than discharges classified to diag- nosis related group 391), (2) discharges involving pediatric bone marrow transplants, (3) discharges involving children who have been determined to be HIV seropositive, and (4) discharges involving pediatric cystic fibrosis. The Department of Defense may include the hospital and neonatal services identified in subsections (a) and (b) in diagnosis related group regulations during fiscal year 1990 when the Department of Defense has adopted special measures to assure equitable and adequate paynaent for such services, such special measures including: (1) a "children's hospital differential" adjust- ment for each discharge of a CHAMPUS patient from a children s hospital that will assure that had the regulations been in effect for fiscal year 1988 they would have resulted in estimated aggregate CHAMPUS payments to children's hospitals not less than estimated aggregate CHAMPUS payments to such hospitals for discharges occurring during that fiscal year under the regulations in effect during fiscal year 1988 (recognizing that payments in subsequent years will vary based on volume, case mix intensity, and other factors); for a transitional period of three years the children's