# Coal Workers' Health Surveillance Program: Autopsy Payment
> **US Department of Health and Human Services** · Final rule. · Published 2021-05-06 · Effective 2021-07-06 · 86 FR 24336
## Document
- **Document number:** 2021-09499
- **Category:** other
- **Sub-agency:** US Department of Health and Human Services
- **Federal Register citation:** 86 FR 24336
- **CFR reference:** 42 CFR 37
- **Publication date:** 2021-05-06
- **Effective date:** 2021-07-06
- **HHS docket:** Docket No. CDC-2019-0088
## Abstract

With this final rule, HHS amends existing regulatory text to allow compensation for pathologists who perform autopsies on coal miners at a market rate, on a discretionary basis as needed for public health purposes. HHS has determined that the agency needs additional time to consider the public comments received on the addition of procedures for suspending or revoking B Reader certification, as proposed in the notice of proposed rulemaking preceding this final rule; those procedures will be finalized at a later date.

## Source
- [Federal Register document](https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2021/05/06/2021-09499/coal-workers-health-surveillance-program-autopsy-payment)
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