U.S. Department of Labor DEEOIC Program

Family Choice Healthcare is a provider for the Energy Employees Occupational Illness Compensation Program. We provide free in-home care to people eligible for benefits under EEOICPA. There are no deductibles or copays. Your coverage under EEOICPA/RECA allows for this care in the comfort of your home.

Our staff works closely with your primary care physician, the Department of Labor and your family to create a customized care plan. The plan is designed to optimize your level of health and keep you living in the comfort of your own home surrounded by your family, friends and community.

The Energy Employees Occupational Illness Compensation Program provides benefits authorized by the Energy Employees Occupational Illness Compensation Program Act (EEOICPA or Act). Part B of the Program went into effect on July 31, 2001 and Part E of the Program went into effect on October 28, 2004. The Department of Labor’s Office of Workers’ Compensation Programs is responsible for adjudicating and administering claims filed by employees or former employees or certain qualified survivors.

Compensation of $150,000 and payment of medical expenses from the date a claim is filed is available to employees of the Department of Energy (DOE), its contractors or subcontractors, and atomic weapons employers with radiation-induced cancer if:

• The employee developed cancer after working at a covered facility of the Department of Energy, its contractors and subcontractors; and
• The employee’s cancer is determined at least as likely as not related to that employment in accordance with guidelines issued by the Department of Health and Human Services, or the employee is determined to be a member of the Special Exposure Cohort (employees who worked at least 250 days before February 1, 1992, for the Department of Energy or its contractors or subcontractors at one or more of the three Gaseous Diffusion Plants located at Oak Ridge, TN, Paducah, KY or Portsmouth, OH or who were exposed to radiation related to certain underground nuclear tests at Amchitka, AK) and developed one of certain listed cancers.
• Employees of the Department of Energy, its contractors and subcontractors, and designated beryllium vendors who worked at covered facilities where they were exposed to beryllium produced or processed for the Department of Energy who developed Chronic Beryllium Disease; and employees of the Department of Energy or its contractors and subcontractors who worked at least 250 days during the mining of tunnels at underground nuclear weapons tests sites in Nevada or Alaska and who developed chronic silicosis.
• If the employee is deceased, the compensation is payable to eligible survivors. Compensation of $50,000 and payment of medical expenses from the date a claim is filed is available for:  Uranium workers (or their survivors) previously awarded benefits by the Department of Justice under Section 5 of the Radiation Exposure Compensation Act.
• Employees of the Department of Energy, its contractors and subcontractors who were exposed to beryllium on the job and now have beryllium sensitivity will receive medical monitoring to check for Chronic Beryllium Disease.

• U.S. Department of Labor – Office of Workers’ Compensation Programs (OWCP) – Division of Energy
• Division of Energy Employees Occupational Illness Compensation (DEEOIC) Brochures

The Family Choice Healthcare Team is happy to help by answering any questions or working with you to determine your eligibility for this program.