# Black Lung Benefits Act: Medical Benefit Payments
> **Office of Workers' Compensation Programs** · Final rule; delay of applicability date. · Published 2019-11-21 · Effective 2019-11-21 · 84 FR 64197
## Document
- **Document number:** 2019-25282
- **Category:** workers-comp
- **Sub-agency:** Office of Workers' Compensation Programs
- **Federal Register citation:** 84 FR 64197
- **CFR reference:** 20 CFR 725
- **Publication date:** 2019-11-21
- **Effective date:** 2019-11-21
## Abstract

The Office of Workers' Compensation Programs (OWCP) has encountered unforeseen delays in implementing a new computer system to process payments for professional medical and hospital outpatient services made by the Black Lung Disability Trust Fund (Trust Fund) under the Black Lung Benefits Act (BLBA). This action delays the applicability date of two rules relevant to these payments, which were published in the Federal Register on June 14, 2018.

## Source
- [Federal Register document](https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2019/11/21/2019-25282/black-lung-benefits-act-medical-benefit-payments)
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