---
kind: "section"
citation: "42 U.S.C. § 1320c–8"
title: "42"
title_heading: "The Public Health and Welfare"
number: "1320c–8"
heading: "Authorization for use of certain funds to administer provisions of this part"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/42/1320c-8"
units:
  - "Chapter 7 — Social Security"
  - "Subchapter XI — General Provisions, Peer Review, and Administrative Simplification"
  - "Part B — Peer Review of Utilization and Quality of Health Care Services"
---

# §1320c–8. Authorization for use of certain funds to administer provisions of this part


Expenses incurred in the [administration](/usc/42/1301.md?p=a-10) of the contracts described in [section 1395y(g) of this title](/usc/42/1395y.md?p=g) shall be payable from—

- (1) funds in the Federal [Hospital](/usc/42/300s–3.md?p=1) Insurance Trust Fund; and
- (2) funds in the Federal Supplementary Medical Insurance Trust Fund,

in such amounts from each of such Trust Funds as the [Secretary](/usc/42/1301.md?p=a-6) shall deem to be fair and equitable after taking into consideration the expenses attributable to the [administration](/usc/42/1301.md?p=a-10) of this part with respect to each of such programs. The [Secretary](/usc/42/1301.md?p=a-6) shall make such transfers of moneys between such Trust Funds as may be appropriate to settle accounts between them in cases where expenses properly payable from one such Trust Fund have been paid from the other such Trust Fund.


## Source credit

(Aug. 14, 1935, ch. 531, title XI, § 1159, as added Pub. L. 97–248, title I, § 143, Sept. 3, 1982, 96 Stat. 390.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Prior Provisions

A prior section 1320c–8, act Aug. 14, 1935, ch. 531, title XI, § 1159, as added Oct. 30, 1972, Pub. L. 92–603, title II, § 249F(b), 86 Stat. 1437; amended Aug. 13, 1981, Pub. L. 97–35, title XXI, § 2113(f), 95 Stat. 795, related to reconsideration hearing and review, prior to the general revision of this part by Pub. L. 97–248.