---
kind: "section"
citation: "20 C.F.R. § 10.313"
title: "20"
number: "10.313"
heading: "Will OWCP pay for preventive treatment?"
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/20/10.313"
---

# §10.313. Will OWCP pay for preventive treatment?


The FECA does not authorize payment for preventive measures such as vaccines and inoculations, and in general, preventive treatment may be a responsibility of the employing agency under the provisions of [5 U.S.C. 7901](/usc/5/7901.md) (see [§ 10.303](/cfr/20/10.303.md)). However, OWCP can authorize treatment for the following conditions, even though such treatment is designed, in part, to prevent further injury:

- (a) Complications of preventive measures which are provided or sponsored by the agency, such as an adverse reaction to prophylactic immunization.
- (b) Actual or probable exposure to a known contaminant due to an injury, thereby requiring disease-specific measures against infection. Examples include the provision of tetanus antitoxin or booster toxoid injections for puncture wounds; administration of rabies vaccine for a bite from a rabid or potentially rabid animal; or appropriate measures where exposure to human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) has occurred.
- (c) Conversion of tuberculin reaction from negative to positive following exposure to tuberculosis in the performance of duty. In this situation, the appropriate therapy may be authorized.
- (d) Where injury to one eye has resulted in loss of vision, periodic examination of the uninjured eye to detect possible sympathetic involvement of the uninjured eye at an early stage.

## Notes

### Authority

Authority: 5 U.S.C. 301, 8102a, 8103, 8145 and 8149; 31 U.S.C. 3716 and 3717; Reorganization Plan No. 6 of 1950, 15 FR 3174, 64 Stat. 1263; Secretary of Labor's Order No. 10-2009, 74 FR 218; Pub. L. 117-263.

### Source

Source: 76 FR 37903, June 28, 2011, unless otherwise noted.