42 U.S.C. § 300mm–23 — National arrangement for benefits for eligible individuals outside New York

(a) In general: To make sure enrolled WTC responders, screening-eligible WTC survivors, and certified-eligible WTC survivors who live outside the New York metropolitan area — in any U.S. state — can reasonably get their benefits, the WTC Program Administrator must build a nationwide network of health care providers. This network gives monitoring, treatment, and initial health evaluation benefits near where these people live. Nothing here stops someone from instead using a Clinical Center of Excellence. (b) Network requirements: A health care provider joining this nationwide network must (1) meet the credentialing standards the Data Centers set; (2) follow the monitoring, initial health evaluation, and treatment protocols developed under section 300mm–4(a)(2)(A)(ii); (3) collect and report data as required by section 300mm–3; and (4) meet fraud, quality-assurance, and other requirements the Administrator sets, including the fraud and abuse laws in sections 1320a–7 through 1320a–7e, applied under section 300mm(d). (c) Training and technical assistance: The Administrator may provide, including by contract, training and technical help to providers participating in the network. (d) Provision of services through the VA: (1) The Administrator may make an agreement with the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to provide these services through Department of Veterans Affairs facilities. (2) By July 1, 2011, the Comptroller General had to report to Congress on whether the VA could provide these monitoring and treatment services more efficiently and effectively than the nationwide network built under subsection (a).