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[CITE: 42USC251]

 
                 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. 251. Medical examination and treatment of Federal 
        employees; medical care at remote stations
        
    (a) The Surgeon General is authorized to provide at institutions, 
hospitals, and station of the Service medical, surgical, and hospital 
services and supplies for persons entitled to treatment under subchapter 
I of Chapter 81 of title 5 and extensions thereof. The Surgeon General 
may also provide for making medical examinations of--
        (1) employees of the Federal Government for retirement purposes;
        (2) employees in the Federal classified service, and applicants 
    for appointment, as requested by the Director of the Office of 
    Personnel Management for the purpose of promoting health and 
    efficiency;
        (3) seamen for purposes of qualifying for certificates of 
    service; and
        (4) employees eligible for benefits under the Longshore and 
    Harbor Workers' Compensation Act, as amended [33 U.S.C. 901 et 
    seq.], as requested by any deputy commissioner thereunder.

    (b) The Secretary is authorized to provide medical, surgical, and 
dental treatment and hospitalization and optometric care for Federal 
employees (as defined in section 8901(1) of title 5) and their 
dependents at remote medical facilities of the Public Health Service 
where such care and treatment are not otherwise available. Such 
employees and their dependents who are not entitled to this care and 
treatment under any other provision of law shall be charged for it at 
rates established by the Secretary to reflect the reasonable cost of 
providing the care and treatment. Any payments pursuant to the preceding 
sentence shall be credited to the applicable appropriation to the Public 
Health Service for the year in which such payments are received.

(July 1, 1944, ch. 373, title III, Sec. 324, 58 Stat. 697; Pub. L. 90-
174, Sec. 10(a), (b), Dec. 5, 1967, 81 Stat. 540; 1978 Reorg. Plan No. 
2, Sec. 102, eff. Jan. 1, 1979, 43 F.R. 36037, 92 Stat. 3783; Pub. L. 
97-468, title VI, Sec. 615(b)(4), Jan. 14, 1983, 96 Stat. 2578; Pub. L. 
98-426, Sec. 27(d)(2), Sept. 28, 1984, 98 Stat. 1654.)

                       References in Text

    The Longshore and Harbor Workers' Compensation Act, as amended, 
referred to in subsec. (a)(4), is act Mar. 4, 1927, ch. 509, 44 Stat. 
1424, as amended, which is classified generally to chapter 18 (Sec. 901 
et seq.) of Title 33, Navigation and Navigable Waters. For complete 
classification of this Act to the Code, see section 901 of Title 33 and 
Tables.

                          Codification

    In subsec. (a), ``subchapter I of chapter 81 of title 5'' 
substituted for ``United States Employees' Compensation Act'' on 
authority of Pub. L. 89-554, Sec. 7(b), Sept. 6, 1966, 80 Stat. 631, the 
first section of which enacted Title 5, Government Organization and 
Employees.


                               Amendments

    1984--Subsec. (a)(4). Pub. L. 98-426 substituted ``Longshore and 
Harbor Workers' Compensation Act'' for ``Longshoremen's and Harbor 
Workers' Compensation Act''.
    1983--Subsec. (a)(1). Pub. L. 97-468 struck out ``employees of the 
Alaska Railroad and'' before ``employees of the Federal Government''.
    1967--Subsec. (a). Pub. L. 90-174, Sec. 10(a), designated existing 
provisions as subsec. (a) and redesignated cls. (a) to (d) as cls. (1) 
to (4), respectively.
    Subsec. (b). Pub. L. 90-174, Sec. 10(b), added subsec. (b).


                    Effective Date of 1984 Amendment

    Amendment by Pub. L. 98-426 effective Sept. 28, 1984, see section 
28(e)(1) of Pub. L. 98-426, set out as a note under section 901 of Title 
33, Navigation and Navigable Waters.


                    Effective Date of 1983 Amendment

    Amendment by Pub. L. 97-468 effective on date of transfer of Alaska 
Railroad to the State [Jan. 5, 1985], pursuant to section 1203 of Title 
45, Railroads, see section 615(b) of Pub. L. 97-468.

                          Transfer of Functions

    ``Director of the Office of Personnel Management'' substituted for 
``Civil Service Commission'' in subsec. (a)(2), pursuant to Reorg. Plan 
No. 2 of 1978, Sec. 102, 43 F.R. 36037, 92 Stat. 3783, set out under 
section 1101 of Title 5, Government Organization and Employees, which 
transferred all functions vested by statute in United States Civil 
Service Commission to Director of Office of Personnel Management (except 
as otherwise specified), effective Jan. 1, 1979, as provided by section 
1-102 of Ex. Ord. No. 12107, Dec. 28, 1978, 44 F.R. 1055, set out under 
section 1101 of Title 5.
    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.

                  Section Referred to in Other Sections

    This section is referred to in section 254e of this title; title 24 
section 168b.
