- § 247e. National Hansen’s Disease Programs Center
- § 248. Control and management of hospitals; furnishing prosthetic and orthopedic devices; transfer of patients; disposal of articles produced by patients; disposal of money and effects of deceased patients; payment of burial expenses
- § 248a. Closing or transfer of hospitals; reduction of services; Congressional authorization required
- § 248b. Transfer or financial self-sufficiency of public health service hospitals and clinics
- §§ 248c, 248d. Repealed.
- § 249. Medical care and treatment of quarantined and detained persons
- § 250. Medical care and treatment of Federal prisoners
- § 250a. Transfer of appropriations
- § 251. Medical examination and treatment of Federal employees; medical care at remote stations
- § 252. Medical examination of aliens
- § 253. Medical services to Coast Guard, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, and Public Health Service
- § 253a. Medical services to retired personnel of National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
- § 253b. Former Lighthouse Service employees; medical service eligibility
- § 254. Interdepartmental work
- § 254a. Sharing of medical care facilities and resources
The Service shall supervise and furnish medical treatment and other necessary medical, psychiatric, and related technical and scientific services, authorized by section 4005 of title 18, in penal and correctional institutions of the United States.
The Attorney General may transfer to the Department of Health and Human Services such amounts as may be necessary for direct expenditures by that Department for medical relief for inmates of Federal penal and correctional institutions.
The Surgeon General shall provide for making, at places within the United States or in other countries, such physical and mental examinations of aliens as are required by the immigration laws, subject to administrative regulations prescribed by the Attorney General and medical regulations prescribed by the Surgeon General with the approval of the Secretary.
Subject to regulations of the President, lightkeepers, assistant lightkeepers, and officers and crews of vessels of the former Lighthouse Service, including any such persons who subsequent to June 30, 1939, were involuntarily assigned to other civilian duty in the Coast Guard, who were entitled to medical relief at hospitals and other stations of the Public Health Service prior to July 1, 1944, and who retired under the provisions of section 763 of title 33, shall be entitled to medical, surgical, and dental treatment and hospitalization at hospitals and other stations of the Public Health Service.
Nothing contained in this part shall affect the authority of the Service to furnish any materials, supplies, or equipment, or perform any work of services, requested in accordance with sections 1535 and 1536 of title 31, or the authority of any other executive department to furnish any materials, supplies, or equipment, or perform any work or services, requested by the Department of Health and Human Services for the Service in accordance with that section.