To amend title 38, United States Code, to authorize the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to conduct a five-year pilot program to demonstrate the advantages of providing veterans in nursing homes with treatment and services to maintain or reactivate living function in veterans.

[AI summary unavailable — showing source text] Authorizes the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to conduct a five-year pilot program to demonstrate the cost-effectiveness and advantages of furnishing care to elderly veterans in nursing homes in order to treat and reactivate or maintain day-to-day living functions in those veterans. Authorizes the Secretary to set a daily rate of reimbursement for such care. Authorizes appropriations for five fiscal years for increased costs of reimbursement of non-Department of Veterans Affairs nursing homes under such program. Requires the Secretary to submit interim and final reports to the Congress concerning the effectiveness of the pilot program.…