---
kind: "section"
citation: "42 U.S.C. § 1320e–2"
title: "42"
title_heading: "The Public Health and Welfare"
number: "1320e–2"
heading: "Trust Fund transfers to Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Trust Fund"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/42/1320e-2"
units:
  - "Chapter 7 — Social Security"
  - "Subchapter XI — General Provisions, Peer Review, and Administrative Simplification"
  - "Part D — Comparative Clinical Effectiveness Research"
---

# §1320e–2. Trust Fund transfers to Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Trust Fund

- (a) **In general—** The [Secretary](/usc/42/1301.md?p=a-6) shall provide for the transfer, from the Federal [Hospital](/usc/42/300s–3.md?p=1) Insurance Trust Fund under [section 1395i of this title](/usc/42/1395i.md) and the Federal Supplementary Medical Insurance Trust Fund under [section 1395t of this title](/usc/42/1395t.md), in proportion (as estimated by the [Secretary](/usc/42/1301.md?p=a-6)) to the total expenditures during such [fiscal year](/usc/42/619.md?p=3) that are made under subchapter XVIII from the respective trust fund, to the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Trust Fund (referred to in this section as the “PCORTF”) under section 9511 of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, of the following:
  - (1) For [fiscal year](/usc/42/619.md?p=3) 2013, an amount equal to $1 multiplied by the average number of individuals entitled to benefits under part A, or enrolled under part B, of subchapter XVIII during such [fiscal year](/usc/42/619.md?p=3).
  - (2) For each of [fiscal years](/usc/42/619.md?p=3) 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, and 2019, an amount equal to $2 multiplied by the average number of individuals entitled to benefits under part A, or enrolled under part B, of subchapter XVIII during such [fiscal year](/usc/42/619.md?p=3).
- (b) **Adjustments for increases in health care spending—** In the case of any [fiscal year](/usc/42/619.md?p=3) beginning after September 30, 2014, the dollar amount in effect under [subsection (a)(2)](#a-2) for such [fiscal year](/usc/42/619.md?p=3) shall be equal to the sum of such dollar amount for the previous [fiscal year](/usc/42/619.md?p=3) (determined after the application of this subsection), plus an amount equal to the product of—
  - (1) such dollar amount for the previous [fiscal year](/usc/42/619.md?p=3), multiplied by
  - (2) the percentage increase in the projected per capita amount of National Health Expenditures, as most recently published by the [Secretary](/usc/42/1301.md?p=a-6) before the beginning of the [fiscal year](/usc/42/619.md?p=3).

## Source credit

(Aug. 14, 1935, ch. 531, title XI, § 1183, as added Pub. L. 111–148, title VI, § 6301(d), Mar. 23, 2010, 124 Stat. 741.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### References in Text

The Internal Revenue Code of 1986, referred to in subsec. (a), is classified generally to Title 26, Internal Revenue Code.