To provide for a study to determine the costs to the public and private sectors of hip fractures among elderly individuals and spinal cord injuries among children, and for other purposes.

[AI summary unavailable — showing source text] Directs the Director of the National Institutes of Health and the Comptroller General of the United States to collaborate to conduct a study for the purpose of: (1) determining (for the most recent one-year period for which data are available) the costs to the public and private sectors of hip fractures among elderly individuals and spinal cord injuries among children; and (2) making recommendations to reduce the incidence of such fractures and injuries.…