---
kind: "section"
citation: "42 U.S.C. § 300mm–3"
title: "42"
title_heading: "The Public Health and Welfare"
number: "300mm–3"
heading: "Uniform data collection and analysis"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/42/300mm-3"
units:
  - "Chapter 6A — Public Health Service"
  - "Subchapter XXXI — World Trade Center Health Program"
  - "Part A — Establishment of Program; Advisory Committee"
---

# §300mm–3. Uniform data collection and analysis

- (a) **In general—** The [WTC Program Administrator](/usc/42/300mm–5.md?p=16-A) shall provide for the uniform collection of data, including claims data (and analysis of data and regular reports to the [Administrator](/usc/42/300bb–8.md?p=4)) on the prevalence of [WTC-related health conditions](/usc/42/300mm–5.md?p=17) and the identification of new [WTC-related health conditions](/usc/42/300mm–5.md?p=17). Such data shall be collected for all individuals provided monitoring or [treatment](/usc/42/11851.md?p=11) benefits under part B and regardless of their place of residence or [Clinical Center of Excellence](/usc/42/300mm–5.md?p=3) through which the benefits are provided. The [WTC Program Administrator](/usc/42/300mm–5.md?p=16-A) shall provide, through the [Data Centers](/usc/42/300mm–5.md?p=3) or otherwise, for the integration of such data into the monitoring and [treatment](/usc/42/11851.md?p=11) [program](/usc/42/274l–1.md?p=4) activities under this subchapter.
- (b) **Coordinating through Centers of Excellence—** Each [Clinical Center of Excellence](/usc/42/300mm–5.md?p=3) shall collect data described in [subsection (a)](#a) and report such data to the corresponding [Data Center](/usc/42/300mm–5.md?p=3) for analysis by such [Data Center](/usc/42/300mm–5.md?p=3).
- (c) **Collaboration with WTC Health Registry—** The [WTC Program Administrator](/usc/42/300mm–5.md?p=16-A) shall provide for collaboration between the [Data Centers](/usc/42/300mm–5.md?p=3) and the World Trade Center Health Registry described in [section 300mm–52 of this title](/usc/42/300mm–52.md).
- (d) **Privacy—** The data collection and analysis under this section shall be conducted and maintained in a manner that protects the confidentiality of individually identifiable health information consistent with applicable statutes and [regulations](/usc/42/201.md?p=d), including, as applicable, HIPAA privacy and security law (as defined in [section 300jj–19(a)(2) of this title](/usc/42/300jj–19.md?p=a-2)) and [section 552a of title 5](/usc/5/552a.md).

## Source credit

(July 1, 1944, ch. 373, title XXXIII, § 3304, as added Pub. L. 111–347, title I, § 101, Jan. 2, 2011, 124 Stat. 3629.)