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[CITE: 42USC250]

 
                 TITLE 42--THE PUBLIC HEALTH AND WELFARE
 
                    CHAPTER 6A--PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE
 
                SUBCHAPTER II--GENERAL POWERS AND DUTIES
 
        Part C--Hospitals, Medical Examinations, and Medical Care
 
Sec. 250. Medical care and treatment of Federal prisoners

    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.

(July 1, 1944, ch. 373, title III, Sec. 323, 58 Stat. 697.)

                          Codification

    ``Section 4005 of title 18'' substituted in text for ``the Act of 
May 13, 1930, as amended (U.S.C., 1940 edition, title 18, secs. 751, 
752)'' on authority of act June 25, 1948, ch. 645, 62 Stat. 684, the 
first section of which enacted Title 18, Crimes and Criminal Procedure.

                          Transfer of Functions

    Functions of Public Health Service, Surgeon General of Public Health 
Service, and all other officers and employees of Public Health Service, 
and functions of all agencies of or in Public Health Service transferred 
to Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare by Reorg. Plan No. 3 of 
1966, eff. June 25, 1966, 31 F.R. 8855, 80 Stat. 1610, set out as a note 
under section 202 of this title. Secretary of Health, Education, and 
Welfare redesignated Secretary of Health and Human Services by section 
509(b) of Pub. L. 96-88 which is classified to section 3508(b) of Title 
20, Education.


                            Cross References

    Third party tort liability to United States for hospital and medical 
care, see section 2651 et seq. of this title.
    Transfer of appropriations for Federal Prison System to Public 
Health Service for expenditure for medical relief for inmates, see 
section 250a of this title.

                  Section Referred to in Other Sections

    This section is referred to in section 254e of this title.
