{"data":{"id":"us-dc/d.c.-code-4-602","jurisdiction":"us-dc","citation":"D.C. Code § 4-602","heading":"Right to reimbursement established; subrogation and assignment.","body":"(a)\nWhenever the District provides health-care assistance to a beneficiary who has suffered an injury or illness under circumstances creating liability in a third party or under circumstances that would have created such a liability had the beneficiary instead of the District incurred the expense of the health-care assistance, it shall have an independent, direct cause of action against that third party for the unreimbursed value or cost of the health-care assistance provided.\n\n(b)\nAs soon as the District begins providing health-care assistance to a beneficiary, it shall become subrogated to any right or claim that the beneficiary has against a third party for the care and treatment it has undertaken to provide or pay for as health-care assistance. Alternatively, or in addition to the legal subrogation effected under this subsection, the Mayor may require a beneficiary to execute a written assignment of that same right or claim.","path":["Title 4. Public Care Systems.","Chapter 6. Health-Care Assistance Reimbursement."],"source_url":"https://code.dccouncil.gov/us/dc/council/code/sections/4-602","current_through":"2026-08-20 (D.C. Law 26-175)","vintage":"","retrieved_at":"2026-08-29T05:44:07Z","sha256":"a4b79f61426171e94484ebc80cfa4ed41d57e4f7cf14954a2cf619e9f44d0523","source_id":"us-dc","stale":false,"prev":"us-dc/d.c.-code-4-601","next":"us-dc/d.c.-code-4-603"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}