---
kind: "unit"
title: "42"
title_heading: "The Public Health and Welfare"
key: "ch7/schXI/ptB"
level: "part"
label: "Part B"
heading: "Peer Review of Utilization and Quality of Health Care Services"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/42/ch7-schXI-ptB"
sections_count: 17
---

# Part B — Peer Review of Utilization and Quality of Health Care Services

Title 42 — The Public Health and Welfare › Chapter 7 — Social Security › Subchapter XI — General Provisions, Peer Review, and Administrative Simplification

## Sections

- [§1320c. Purpose](/usc/42/1320c.md)
- [§1320c–1. Definition of quality improvement organization](/usc/42/1320c-1.md)
- [§1320c–2. Contracts with quality improvement organizations](/usc/42/1320c-2.md)
- [§1320c–3. Functions of quality improvement organizations](/usc/42/1320c-3.md)
- [§1320c–4. Right to hearing and judicial review](/usc/42/1320c-4.md)
- [§1320c–5. Obligations of health care practitioners and providers of health care services; sanctions and penalties; hearings and review](/usc/42/1320c-5.md)
- [§1320c–6. Limitation on liability](/usc/42/1320c-6.md)
- [§1320c–7. Application of this part to certain State programs receiving Federal financial assistance](/usc/42/1320c-7.md)
- [§1320c–8. Authorization for use of certain funds to administer provisions of this part](/usc/42/1320c-8.md)
- [§1320c–9. Prohibition against disclosure of information](/usc/42/1320c-9.md)
- [§1320c–10. Annual reports](/usc/42/1320c-10.md)
- [§1320c–11. Exemptions for religious nonmedical health care institutions](/usc/42/1320c-11.md)
- [§1320c–12. Medical officers in American Samoa, the Northern Mariana Islands, and the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands to be included in the quality improvement program](/usc/42/1320c-12.md)
- [§1320c–13. Repealed.](/usc/42/1320c-13.md)
- [§1320c–14...1320c–19. Omitted](/usc/42/1320c-14...1320c-19.md)
- [§1320c–20. Repealed.](/usc/42/1320c-20.md)
- [§1320c–22. Omitted](/usc/42/1320c-22.md)