---
kind: "section"
citation: "42 C.F.R. § 88.17"
title: "42"
number: "88.17"
heading: "Physician's determination of WTC-related health conditions."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/42/88.17"
---

# §88.17. Physician's determination of WTC-related health conditions.

- (a) A physician affiliated with either a CCE or NPN will promptly transmit to the WTC Health Program a determination that a member's exposure to airborne toxins, any other hazard, or any other adverse condition resulting from the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks is substantially likely to be a significant factor in aggravating, contributing to, or causing the illness or health condition, including a mental health condition. The transmission will also include the basis for such determination. The physician's determination will be made based on an assessment of the following:
  - (1) The individual's exposure to airborne toxins, any other hazard, or any other adverse condition resulting from the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.
  - (2) **The type of symptoms experienced by the individual and the temporal sequence of those symptoms.**
- (b) For a health condition medically associated with a WTC-related health condition, the physician's determination must contain information establishing how the health condition has resulted from treatment of a previously certified WTC-related health condition or how it has resulted from progression of the certified WTC-related health condition.

## Notes

### Authority

Authority: 42 U.S.C. 300mm to 300mm-64.

### Source

Source: 81 FR 90938, Dec. 15, 2016, unless otherwise noted.