---
kind: "section"
citation: "42 U.S.C. § 18117"
title: "42"
title_heading: "The Public Health and Welfare"
number: "18117"
heading: "Oversight"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/42/18117"
units:
  - "Chapter 157 — Quality, Affordable Health Care for All Americans"
  - "Subchapter VI — Miscellaneous Provisions"
---

# §18117. Oversight


The Inspector General of the Department of Health and Human Services shall have oversight authority with respect to the administration and implementation of this title[^1] as it relates to such Department.


## Footnotes

[^1]: See References in Text note below.

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 111–148, title I, § 1559, Mar. 23, 2010, 124 Stat. 261.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### References in Text

This title, referred to in text, is title I of Pub. L. 111–148, Mar. 23, 2010, 124 Stat. 130, which enacted this chapter and enacted, amended, and transferred numerous other sections and notes in the Code. For complete classification of title I to the Code, see Tables.