Title 42 — The Public Health and WelfareRelease 119-73

§300mm–23 National arrangement for benefits for eligible individuals outside New York

Title 42 › Chapter CHAPTER 6A— - PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE › Subchapter SUBCHAPTER XXXI— - WORLD TRADE CENTER HEALTH PROGRAM › Part Part B— - Program of Monitoring, Initial Health Evaluations, and Treatment › Subpart subpart 1— - wtc responders › § 300mm–23

Last updated Apr 6, 2026|Official source

Summary

The WTC Program Administrator must create a national group of health care providers to serve WTC responders, screening‑eligible survivors, and certified‑eligible survivors who live in any State outside the New York metro area. These providers must give monitoring, treatment, and initial health exams near where those people live. People may still get these services at any Clinical Center of Excellence. Providers in the network must meet Data Centers’ credentialing rules, follow the required monitoring, evaluation, and treatment protocols, collect and report required data, and follow fraud and quality rules (including 42 U.S.C. 1320a‑7 through 1320a‑7e as applied by section 300mm(d)). The Administrator may offer training and help to providers and may make an agreement with the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to use VA facilities. The Comptroller General had to report by July 1, 2011 to Congress on whether the VA could do these services more efficiently or effectively.

Full Legal Text

Title 42, §300mm–23

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(a)In order to ensure reasonable access to benefits under this part for individuals who are enrolled WTC responders, screening-eligible WTC survivors, or certified-eligible WTC survivors and who reside in any State, as defined in section 201(f) of this title, outside the New York metropolitan area, the WTC Program Administrator shall establish a nationwide network of health care providers to provide monitoring and treatment benefits and initial health evaluations near such individuals’ areas of residence in such States. Nothing in this subsection shall be construed as preventing such individuals from being provided such monitoring and treatment benefits or initial health evaluation through any Clinical Center of Excellence.

(b)Any health care provider participating in the network under subsection (a) shall—

(1)meet criteria for credentialing established by the Data Centers;

(2)follow the monitoring, initial health evaluation, and treatment protocols developed under section 300mm–4(a)(2)(A)(ii) of this title;

(3)collect and report data in accordance with section 300mm–3 of this title; and

(4)meet such fraud, quality assurance, and other requirements as the WTC Program Administrator establishes, including sections 1320a–7 through 1320a–7e of this title, as applied by section 300mm(d) of this title.

(c)The WTC Program Administer 11 So in original. Probably should be “Administrator”. may provide, including through contract, for the provision of training and technical assistance to health care providers participating in the network under subsection (a).

(d)(1)The WTC Program Administrator may enter into an agreement with the Secretary of Veterans Affairs for the Secretary to provide services under this section through facilities of the Department of Veterans Affairs.

(2)Not later than July 1, 2011, the Comptroller General of the United States shall submit to the Committee on Energy and Commerce of the House of Representatives and the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions of the Senate a report on whether the Department of Veterans Affairs can provide monitoring and treatment services to individuals under this section more efficiently and effectively than through the nationwide network to be established under subsection (a).

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Citation

42 U.S.C. § 300mm–23

Title 42 — The Public Health and Welfare

Last Updated

Apr 6, 2026

Release point: 119-73