cialty organizations, and other relevant groups to identify and implement effective means to educate physicians, other providers, consumers, and others in using such findings and guidelines, including training for physician managers within provider organizations. (f) EVALUATIONS.-The Secretary shall conduct and support evaluations of the activities carried out under this section to determine the extent to which such activities have had an effect on the practices of physicians in providing medical treatment, the delivery of health care, and the outcomes of health care services and procedures. (g) RESEARCH WITH RESPECT TO DISSEMINATION.-The Secretary may conduct or support research with respect to improving methods of disseminating information on the effectiveness and appropriateness of health care services and procedures. (h) REPORT TO CONGRESS.-Not later than February 1 of each of the years 1991 and 1992, and of each second year thereafter, the Secretary shall report to the Congress on the progress of the activities under this section during the preceding fiscal year (or preceding 2 fiscal years, as appropriate), including the impact of such activities on medical care (particularly medical care for individuals receiving benefits under title XVIII). (i) AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS. (1) IN GENERAL.-There are authorized to be appropriated to carry out this section (A) $50,000,000 for fiscal year 1990; (2) SPECIFICATIONS.-For the purpose of carrying out this section, for each of the fiscal years 1990 through 1992 an amount equal to two-thirds of the amounts authorized to be appropriated under paragraph (1), and for each of the fiscal years 1993 and 1994 an amount equal to 70 percent of such amounts, are to be appropriated in the following proportions from the following trust funds: (A) 60 percent from the Federal Hospital Insurance Trust Fund (established under section 1817). (B) 40 percent from the Federal Supplementary Medical Insurance Trust Fund (established under section 1841). (3) ALLOCATIONS.— (A) For each fiscal year, of the amounts transferred or otherwise appropriated to carry out this section, the Secretary shall reserve appropriate amounts for each of the purposes specified in clauses (i) through (iv) of subparagraph (B). (B) The purposes referred to in subparagraph (A) are— (i) the development of guidelines, standards, performance measures, and review criteria; (ii) research and evaluation; (iii) data-base standards and development; and REORGANIZATION PLAN NO. 1 of 1953 DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH, EDUCATION, AND WELFARE SECTION 1. Creation of Department; Secretary.-There is hereby established an executive department, which shall be known as the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare (hereafter in this reorganization plan referred to as the Department). There shall be at the head of the Department a Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare (hereafter in this reorganization plan referred to as the Secretary), who shall be appointed by the President by and with the advise and consent of the Senate, and who shall receive compensation at the rate now or hereafter prescribed by law for the heads of executive departments. The Department shall be administered under the supervision and direction of the Secretary. 1 SEC. 2. Under Secretary and Assistant Secretaries.-There shall be in the Department an Under Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare and five 1 Assistant Secretaries of Health, Education, and Welfare, each of whom shall be appointed by the President by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, shall perform such functions as the Secretary may prescribe, and shall receive compensation at the rate now or hereafter provided by law for under secretaries and assistant secretaries, respectively, of executive departments. The Under Secretary (or, during the absence or disability of the Under Secretary or in the event of a vacancy in the office of Under Secretary, an Assistant Secretary determined according to such order as the Secretary shall prescribe) shall act as Secretary during the absence or disability of the Secretary or in the event of a vacancy in the office of Secretary. SEC. 4. 2 Commissioner of Social Security.-There shall be in the Department a Commissioner of Social Security who shall be appointed by the President by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, shall perform such functions concerning social security and public welfare as the Secretary may prescribe, and shall receive compensation at the rate now or hereafter fixed by law for grade GS-18 of the general schedule established by the Classification Act of 1949, as amended. SEC. 5. Transfers to the Department.-All functions of the Federal Security Administrator are hereby transferred to the Secretary. All agencies of the Federal Security Agency, together with their respective functions, personnel, property, records, and unexpended balances of appropriations, allocations, and other funds (available or to be made available), and all other functions, personnel, property, records, and unexpended balances of appropriations, allocations, 1 Section 1(b) of Public Law 89-234 provided for an additional Assistant Secretary. 2 Section 3 was repealed by section 4 of Public Law 89-115. and other funds (available or to be made available) of the Federal Security Agency are hereby transferred to the Department. SEC. 6. Performance of functions of the Secretary.-The Secretary may from time to time make such provisions as the Secretary deems appropriate authorizing the performance of any of the functions of the Secretary by any other officer, or by any agency or employee, of the Department. SEC. 7. Administrative services.-In the interest of economy and efficiency the Secretary may from time to time establish central administrative services in the fields of procurement, budgeting, accounting, personnel, library, legal, and other services and activities common to the several agencies of the Department; and the Secretary may effect such transfers within the Department of the personnel employed, the property and records used or held, and the funds available for use in connection with such administrative-service activities as the Secretary may deem necessary for the conduct of any services so established: Provided, That no professional or substantive functions vested by law in any officer shall be removed from the jurisdiction of such officer under this section. SEC. 8. Abolitions.-The Federal Security Agency (exclusive of the agencies thereof transferred by sec. 5 of this reorganization plan), the offices of Federal Security Administrator and Assistant Federal Security Administrator created by Reorganization Plan No. 1 (53 Stat. 1423), the two offices of assistant heads of the Federal Security Agency created by Reorganization Plan No. 2 of 1946 (60 Stat. 1095), and the office of Commissioner for Social Security created by section 701 of the Social Security Act, as amended (64 Stat. 558), are hereby abolished. The Secretary shall make such provisions as may be necessary in order to wind up any outstanding affairs of the Agency and the offices abolished by this section which are not otherwise provided for in this reorganization plan. SEC. 9. Interim provisions.-The President may authorize the persons who immediately prior to the time this reorganization plan takes effect occupy the offices of Federal Security Administration, Assistant Security Administrator, assistant heads of the Federal Security Agency, the Commissioner for Social Security to act as Secretary, Under Secretary, and Assistant Secretaries of Health, Education, and Welfare and as Commissioner of Social Security, respectively, until those offices are filled by appointment in the manner provided by sections 1, 2, and 4 of this reorganization plan, but not for a period of more than 60 days. While so acting, such persons shall receive compensation at the rates provided by this reorganization plan for the offices the functions of which they perform. REORGANIZATION PLAN NO. 3 of 1966 PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE SECTION 1. Transfer of functions.-(a) Except as otherwise provided in subsection (b) of this section, there are hereby transferred to the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare (hereinafter re |