Title 42 — The Public Health and Welfare
Chapter 32 — Third Party Liability for Hospital and Medical Care
§ 2652. Regulations
Statutory text
Determination and establishment of reasonable value of care and treatment
The President may prescribe regulations to carry out this chapter, including regulations with respect to the determination and establishment of the reasonable value of the hospital, medical, surgical, or dental care and treatment (including prostheses and medical appliances) furnished or to be furnished.
Settlement, release and waiver of claims
To the extent prescribed by regulations under subsection (a), the head of the department or agency of the United States concerned may (1) compromise, or settle and execute a release of, any claim which the United States has by virtue of the right established by section 2651 of this title; or (2) waive any such claim, in whole or in part, for the convenience of the Government, or if he determines that collection would result in undue hardship upon the person who suffered the injury or disease resulting in care or treatment described in section 2651 of this title.
Damages recoverable for personal injury unaffected
No action taken by the United States in connection with the rights afforded under this legislation shall operate to deny to the injured person the recovery for that portion of his damage not covered hereunder.
Legislative history
Reconstructed from this section’s Code source credit and amendment notes, resolved against the local Statutes at Large. Editorial notes are evidence, not the law that made the change.
Pub. L. 87–693 § 2 · 76 Stat. 593
Enacted · 42 U.S.C. § 2652
(Pub. L. 87–693, § 2, Sept. 25, 1962, 76 Stat. 593.)
Source evidence
Code source credit
(Pub. L. 87–693, § 2, Sept. 25, 1962, 76 Stat. 593.)Enacted provision · exact public law section
Sec. 2. (a) The President may prescribe regulations to carry out this Act, including regulations with respect to the determination and establishment of the reasonable value of the hospital, medical, surgical, or dental care and treatment (including prostheses and medical appliances) furnished or to be furnished. (b) To the extent prescribed by regulations under subsection (a), Settlement provisions. the head of the department or agency of the United States concerned may (1) compromise, or settle and execute a release of, any claim which the United States has by virtue of the right established by section 1; or (2) waive any such claim, in whole or in part, for the convenience of the Government, or if he determines that collection would result in undue hardship upon the person who suffered the injury or disease resulting in care or treatment described in section 1. (c) No action taken by the United States in connection with the rights afforded under this legislation shall operate to deny to the injured person the recovery for that portion of his damage not covered hereunder.
1 of 1 references resolved to an enrolled provision
Executive Documents
Ex. Ord. No. 11060. Delegation of Authority To Prescribe Regulations
Ex. Ord. No. 11060, , 27 F.R. 10925, as amended by Ex. Ord. No. 12608, , 52 F.R. 34617, provided:
Under and by virtue of the authority vested in me by Title 3 of the United States Code and by Section 2(a) of the Act of September 25, 1962 (Public Law 87–693) [subsec. (a) of this section], it is hereby ordered as follows:
Section 1. The Director of the Office of Management and Budget shall, for the purposes of the Act of , [this chapter], from time to time, determine and establish rates that represent the reasonable value of hospital, medical, surgical, or dental care and treatment (including prostheses and medical appliances) furnished or to be furnished.
Sec. 2. Except as provided in Section 1 of this order, the Attorney General shall prescribe regulations to carry out the purposes of the Act of [this chapter].