---
kind: "section"
citation: "42 U.S.C. § 1320b–16"
title: "42"
title_heading: "The Public Health and Welfare"
number: "1320b–16"
heading: "Public disclosure of certain information on hospital financial interest and referral patterns"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/42/1320b-16"
units:
  - "Chapter 7 — Social Security"
  - "Subchapter XI — General Provisions, Peer Review, and Administrative Simplification"
  - "Part A — General Provisions"
---

# §1320b–16. Public disclosure of certain information on hospital financial interest and referral patterns


The [Secretary](/usc/42/1301.md?p=a-6) shall make available to the public, in a form and manner specified by the [Secretary](/usc/42/1301.md?p=a-6), information disclosed to the [Secretary](/usc/42/1301.md?p=a-6) pursuant to [section 1395cc(a)(1)(S) of this title](/usc/42/1395cc.md?p=a-1-S).


## Source credit

(Aug. 14, 1935, ch. 531, title XI, § 1146, as added Pub. L. 105–33, title IV, § 4321(c), Aug. 5, 1997, 111 Stat. 395.)

## Notes

### Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

### Effective Date

Pub. L. 105–33, title IV, § 4321(d)(2), Aug. 5, 1997, 111 Stat. 395, provided that: “The Secretary of Health and Human Services shall issue regulations by not later than the date which is 1 year after the date of the enactment of this Act [Aug. 5, 1997] to carry out the amendments made by subsections (b) and (c) [enacting this section and amending section 1395cc of this title] and such amendments shall take effect as of such date (on or after the issuance of such regulations) as the Secretary specifies in such regulations.”