Petitions to Add Autoimmune and Cardiovascular Conditions to the List of WTC Health Program Covered Conditions
On September 3rd, 2023, all of the Clinic Directors of the World Trade Center Health Program joined Dr. Dave Prezant, FDNY DC, including Michael Crane, MD Mount Sinai CCE, Jacqueline Moline, MD Northwell CCE, Denise Harrison, MD NYU CCE, Ben Luft, MD Stony Brook CCE, Iris Udasin, MD Rutgers CCE, Jeffrey Low, MD FDNY CCE, Joan Reibman, MD HHC CCE in filing two petitions the World Trade Center Health Program to add autoimmune and cardiovascular conditions to the list of WTC Health Program Covered Conditions.
On February 2, 2025, Dr. Benjamin Luft and Dr. Sean Coulston of Stonybrook University submitted a petition to add Dementia conditions to the list of WTC Health Program Covered Conditions.
Under the James Zadroga 9/11 Health and Compensation Act, the law governing the World Trade Center Health Program, the Health Program provides medical treatment to 9/11 responders and survivors based on a list of approved conditions whose cause has been associated with exposure to the toxins at Ground Zero. The statute outlines the process and requirements that need to be met for the World Trade Center Health Program Administrator to add conditions to the list of covered conditions.
All three petitions have been determined to meet the requirements of the Program regulations at 42 C.F.R. § 88.16(a)(1) to be a valid petitions and as required by the statute the program Administrator will have to review them and determine if they have provided sufficient evidence to meet the law’s requirements.
The petitions filed in September of 2023 to have autoimmune and cardiac conditions covered by the program were supposed to have been finally ruled on by the program by March of 2025, but that determination has been delayed by the new Administration.
Documents
2/26/2025 WTCHP Acknowledgement of Dementia Petition
12/23/2024 CDC Response to Members of Congress on Petition Status
09/30/2024 Garbarino, Nadler, D’Esposito Goldman Letter Regarding Petition Status
9/27/2023 WTC Responder Steering Members In Support of adding Autoimmune
9/27/2023 WTC Responder Steering Members in Support of adding Cardiovascular
Petitions
2/2/2025 Dementia Petition
9/03/2023 Autoimmune Petition
9/03/2023 Cardiovascular Petition
World Trade Center Petition Process
News Articles
FREE CARE FOR HEART, AUTOIMMUNE PROBLEMS AFTER 9/11 TOXIN EXPOSURE? A DECISION IS COMING
Newsday | July 17, 2024
The decision from the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health is expected in the next several months, according to an agency spokeswoman