---
kind: "section"
citation: "42 U.S.C. § 7384t"
title: "42"
title_heading: "The Public Health and Welfare"
number: "7384t"
heading: "Medical benefits"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/42/7384t"
units:
  - "Chapter 84 — Department of Energy"
  - "Subchapter XVI — Energy Employees Occupational Illness Compensation Program"
  - "Part B — Program Administration"
---

# §7384t. Medical benefits

- (a) **Medical benefits provided—** The United States shall furnish, to an individual receiving medical benefits under this section for an illness, the services, appliances, and supplies prescribed or recommended by a qualified physician for that illness, which the President considers likely to cure, give relief, or reduce the degree or the period of that illness.
- (b) **Persons furnishing benefits—**
  - (1) These services, appliances, and supplies shall be furnished by or on the order of United States medical officers and [hospitals](/usc/42/300s–3.md?p=1), or, at the individual’s option, by or on the order of physicians and [hospitals](/usc/42/300s–3.md?p=1) designated or approved by the President.
  - (2) The individual may initially select a physician to provide medical services, appliances, and supplies under this section in accordance with such regulations and instructions as the President considers necessary.
- (c) **Transportation and expenses—** The individual may be furnished necessary and reasonable transportation and expenses incident to the securing of such services, appliances, and supplies.
- (d) **Commencement of benefits—** An individual receiving benefits under this section shall be furnished those benefits as of the date on which that individual submitted the claim for those benefits in accordance with this subchapter.
- (e) **Payment from compensation fund—** The benefits provided under this section, when authorized or approved by the President, shall be paid from the compensation fund established under [section 7384e of this title](/usc/42/7384e.md).
- (f) **Effective date—** This section shall take effect on July 31, 2001, unless Congress otherwise provides in an Act enacted before that date.

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 106–398, § 1 [div. C, title XXXVI, § 3629], Oct. 30, 2000, 114 Stat. 1654, 1654A–507.)