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42 U.S.C. § 247e — National Hansen’s Disease Programs Center

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42 U.S.C. § 247e — National Hansen’s Disease Programs Center

**(a) Care and treatment** (1) At or through the National Hansen’s Disease Programs Center (located in the State of Louisiana), the Secretary shall without charge provide short-term care and treatment, including outpatient care, for Hansen’s disease and related complications to any person determined by the Secretary to be in need of such care and treatment. The Secretary may not at or through such Center provide long-term care for any such disease or complication. (2) The Center referred to in paragraph (1) shall conduct training in the diagnosis and management of Hansen’s disease and related complications, and shall conduct and promote the coordination of research (including clinical research), investigations, demonstrations, and studies relating to the causes, diagnosis, treatment, control, and prevention of Hansen’s disease and other mycobacterial diseases and complications related to such diseases. (3) Paragraph (1) is subject to section 211 of the Department of Health and Human Services Appropriations Act, 1998. **(b) Additional sites authorized** In addition to the Center referred to in subsection (a), the Secretary may establish sites regarding persons with Hansen’s disease. Each such site shall provide for the outpatient care and treatment for Hansen’s disease and related complications to any person determined by the Secretary to be in need of such care and treatment. **(c) Agency designated by Secretary** The Secretary shall carry out subsections (a) and (b) acting through an agency of the Service. For purposes of the preceding sentence, the agency designated by the Secretary shall carry out both activities relating to the provision of health services and activities relating to the conduct of research. **(d) Payments to Board of Health of Hawaii** The Sec

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5 U.S.C. § 5597 — Separation pay

**(a)** For the purpose of this section— (1) the term “Secretary” means the Secretary of Defense; (2) the term “defense agency” means an agency of the Department of Defense, as further defined under regulations prescribed by the Secretary; and (3) the term “employee” means an employee of a defense agency, serving under an appointment without time limitation, who has been currently employed for a continuous period of at least 12 months, except that such term does not include— (A) a reemployed annuitant under subchapter III of chapter 83, chapter 84, or another retirement system for employees of the Government; or (B) an employee having a disability on the basis of which such employee is or would be eligible for disability retirement under any of the retirement systems referred to in subparagraph (A). **(b)** In order to avoid or minimize the need for involuntary separations due to a reduction in force, base closure, reorganization, transfer of function, workforce restructuring (to meet mission needs, achieve one or more strength reductions, correct skill imbalances, or reduce the number of high-grade, managerial, or supervisory positions), or other similar action affecting 1 or more defense agencies, the Secretary shall establish a program under which separation pay may be offered to encourage eligible employees to separate from service voluntarily (whether by retirement or resignation). **(c)** Under the program, separation pay may be offered by a defense agency only— (1) with the prior consent, or on the authority, of the Secretary; and (2) to employees within such occupational groups or geographic locations, or subject to such other similar objective and nonpersonal limitations or conditions, as the Secretary may require. A determination of which employee

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42 U.S.C. § 264 — Regulations to control communicable diseases

**(a) Promulgation and enforcement by Surgeon General** The Surgeon General, with the approval of the Secretary, is authorized to make and enforce such regulations as in his judgment are necessary to prevent the introduction, transmission, or spread of communicable diseases from foreign countries into the States or possessions, or from one State or possession into any other State or possession. For purposes of carrying out and enforcing such regulations, the Surgeon General may provide for such inspection, fumigation, disinfection, sanitation, pest extermination, destruction of animals or articles found to be so infected or contaminated as to be sources of dangerous infection to human beings, and other measures, as in his judgment may be necessary. **(b) Apprehension, detention, or conditional release of individuals** Regulations prescribed under this section shall not provide for the apprehension, detention, or conditional release of individuals except for the purpose of preventing the introduction, transmission, or spread of such communicable diseases as may be specified from time to time in Executive orders of the President upon the recommendation of the Secretary, in consultation with the Surgeon General,11 So in original. The comma probably should not appear.. **(c) Application of regulations to persons entering from foreign countries** Except as provided in subsection (d), regulations prescribed under this section, insofar as they provide for the apprehension, detention, examination, or conditional release of individuals, shall be applicable only to individuals coming into a State or possession from a foreign country or a possession. **(d) Apprehension and examination of persons reasonably believed to be infected** (1) Regulations prescribed under this section

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42 U.S.C. § 1396 — Medicaid and CHIP Payment and Access Commission

**(a) Establishment** There is hereby established the Medicaid and CHIP Payment and Access Commission (in this section referred to as “MACPAC”). **(b) Duties** (1) **Review of access policies for all States and annual reports** — MACPAC shall— (A) review policies of the Medicaid program established under this subchapter (in this section referred to as “Medicaid”) and the State Children’s Health Insurance Program established under subchapter XXI (in this section referred to as “CHIP”) affecting access to covered items and services, including topics described in paragraph (2); (B) make recommendations to Congress, the Secretary, and States concerning such access policies; (C) by not later than March 15 of each year (beginning with 2010), submit a report to Congress containing the results of such reviews and MACPAC’s recommendations concerning such policies; and (D) by not later than June 15 of each year (beginning with 2010), submit a report to Congress containing an examination of issues affecting Medicaid and CHIP, including the implications of changes in health care delivery in the United States and in the market for health care services on such programs. (2) **Specific topics to be reviewed** — Specifically, MACPAC shall review and assess the following: (A) *Medicaid and CHIP payment policies* — Payment policies under Medicaid and CHIP, including— (i) the factors affecting expenditures for the efficient provision of items and services in different sectors, including the process for updating payments to medical, dental, and health professionals, hospitals, residential and long-term care providers, providers of home and community based services, Federally-qualified health centers and rural health clinics, managed care entities, and providers of ot

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42 U.S.C. § 401 — Trust Funds

**(a) Federal Old-Age and Survivors Insurance Trust Fund** There is hereby created on the books of the Treasury of the United States a trust fund to be known as the “Federal Old-Age and Survivors Insurance Trust Fund”. The Federal Old-Age and Survivors Insurance Trust Fund shall consist of the securities held by the Secretary of the Treasury for the Old-Age Reserve Account and the amount standing to the credit of the Old-Age Reserve Account on the books of the Treasury on January 1, 1940, which securities and amount the Secretary of the Treasury is authorized and directed to transfer to the Federal Old-Age and Survivors Insurance Trust Fund, and, in addition, such gifts and bequests as may be made as provided in subsection (i)(1), and such amounts as may be appropriated to, or deposited in, the Federal Old-Age and Survivors Insurance Trust Fund as hereinafter provided. There is hereby appropriated to the Federal Old-Age and Survivors Insurance Trust Fund for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1941, and for each fiscal year thereafter, out of any moneys in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, amounts equivalent to 100 per centum of— (1) the taxes (including interest, penalties, and additions to the taxes) received under subchapter A of chapter 9 of the Internal Revenue Code of 1939 (and covered into the Treasury) which are deposited into the Treasury by collectors of internal revenue before January 1, 1951; and (2) the taxes certified each month by the Commissioner of Internal Revenue as taxes received under subchapter A of chapter 9 of such Code which are deposited into the Treasury by collectors of internal revenue after December 31, 1950, and before January 1, 1953, with respect to assessments of such taxes made before January 1, 1951; and (3) the taxes imposed by

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42 U.S.C. § 201 — Funding

Beginning with fiscal year 2010, the Secretary shall transfer from the Public Health and Social Services Emergency Fund such sums as may be necessary to carry out this part.

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42 U.S.C. § 255 — Home health services

**(a) Purpose; authorization of grants and loans; considerations; conditions on loans; appropriations** (1) For the purpose of encouraging the establishment and initial operation of home health programs to provide home health services in areas in which such services are inadequate or not readily accessible, the Secretary may, in accordance with the provisions of this section, make grants to public and nonprofit private entities and loans to proprietary entities to meet the initial costs of establishing and operating such home health programs. Such grants and loans may include funds to provide training for paraprofessionals (including homemaker home health aides) to provide home health services. (2) In making grants and loans under this subsection, the Secretary shall— (A) consider the relative needs of the several States for home health services; (B) give preference to areas in which a high percentage of the population proposed to be served is composed of individuals who are elderly, medically indigent, or disabled; and (C) give special consideration to areas with inadequate means of transportation to obtain necessary health services. (3) (A) No loan may be made to a proprietary entity under this section unless the application of such entity for such loan contains assurances satisfactory to the Secretary that— (i) at the time the application is made the entity is fiscally sound; (ii) the entity is unable to secure a loan for the project for which the application is submitted from non-Federal lenders at the rate of interest prevailing in the area in which the entity is located; and (iii) during the period of the loan, such entity will remain fiscally sound. (B) Loans under this section shall be made at an interest rate comparable to the r

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42 U.S.C. § 1395 — Conditions of participation for home health agencies; home health quality

**(a) Conditions of participation; protection of individual rights; notification of State entities; use of home health aides; medical equipment; individual’s plan of care; compliance with Federal, State, and local laws and regulations** The conditions of participation that a home health agency is required to meet under this subsection are as follows: (1) The agency protects and promotes the rights of each individual under its care, including each of the following rights: (A) The right to be fully informed in advance about the care and treatment to be provided by the agency, to be fully informed in advance of any changes in the care or treatment to be provided by the agency that may affect the individual’s well-being, and (except with respect to an individual adjudged incompetent) to participate in planning care and treatment or changes in care or treatment. (B) The right to voice grievances with respect to treatment or care that is (or fails to be) furnished without discrimination or reprisal for voicing grievances. (C) The right to confidentiality of the clinical records described in section 1395x(o)(3) of this title. (D) The right to have one’s property treated with respect. (E) The right to be fully informed orally and in writing (in advance of coming under the care of the agency) of— (i) all items and services furnished by (or under arrangements with) the agency for which payment may be made under this subchapter, (ii) the coverage available for such items and services under this subchapter, subchapter XIX, and any other Federal program of which the agency is reasonably aware, (iii) any charges for items and services not covered under this subchapter and any charges the individual may have to pay with respect to items and services furn

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42 U.S.C. § 210–1 — Pay and allowances

**(a) Commissioned officers of Regular Corps and Ready Reserve Corps; special pay for active duty; incentive special pay for Public Health Service nurses** (1) Commissioned officers of the Regular Corps and Ready Reserve Corps shall be entitled to receive such pay and allowances as are now or may hereafter be authorized by law. (2) For provisions relating to the receipt of special pay by commissioned officers of the Regular Corps and Ready Reserve Corps while on active duty, see section 303a(b) or 373 of title 37. **(b) Purchase of supplies** Commissioned officers on active duty and retired officers entitled to retired pay pursuant to section 211(g)(3), 212, or 213a(a) of this title, shall be permitted to purchase supplies from the Army, Navy, Air Force, and Marine Corps at the same price as is charged officers thereof. **(c) Members of national advisory or review councils or committees** Members of the National Advisory Health Council and members of other national advisory or review councils or committees established under this chapter, including members of the Technical Electronic Product Radiation Safety Standards Committee and the Board of Regents of the National Library of Medicine, but excluding ex officio members, while attending conferences or meetings of their respective councils or committees or while otherwise serving at the request of the Secretary, shall be entitled to receive compensation at rates to be fixed by the Secretary, but at rates not exceeding the daily equivalent of the rate specified at the time of such service for grade GS–18 of the General Schedule, including traveltime; and while away from their homes or regular places of business they may be allowed travel expenses, including per diem in lieu of subsistence, as authorized by [section 57

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42 U.S.C. § 247d–11 — State All Payer Claims Databases

**(a) In general** The Secretary shall make one-time grants to eligible States for the purposes described in subsection (b). **(b) Uses** A State may use a grant received under subsection (a) for one of the following purposes: (1) To establish a State All Payer Claims Database. (2) To improve an 11 So in original. existing State All Payer Claims Databases.1 **(c) Eligibility** To be eligible to receive a grant under subsection (a), a State shall submit to the Secretary an application at such time, in such manner, and containing such information as the Secretary specifies, including, with respect to a State All Payer Claims Database, at least specifics on how the State will ensure uniform data collection and the privacy and security of such data. **(d) Grant period and amount** Grants awarded under this section shall be for a period of 3-years,22 So in original. Probably should be “3 years,”. and in an amount of $2,500,000, of which $1,000,000 shall be made available to the State for each of the first 2 years of the grant period, and $500,000 shall be made available to the State for the third year of the grant period. **(e) Authorized users** (1) **Application** — An entity desiring authorization for access to a State All Payer Claims Database that has received a grant under this section shall submit to the State All Payer Claims Database an application for such access, which shall include— (A) in the case of an entity requesting access for research purposes— (i) a description of the uses and methodologies for evaluating health system performance using such data; and (ii) documentation of approval of the research by an institutional review board, if applicable for a particular plan of research; or (B) in the case of an entity such as an employer, h

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42 U.S.C. § 247d–8 — Coordinated program to improve pediatric oral health

**(a) In general** The Secretary, acting through the Administrator of the Health Resources and Services Administration, shall establish a program to fund innovative oral health activities that improve the oral health of children under 6 years of age who are eligible for services provided under a Federal health program, to increase the utilization of dental services by such children, and to decrease the incidence of early childhood and baby bottle tooth decay. **(b) Grants** The Secretary shall award grants to or enter into contracts with public or private nonprofit schools of dentistry or accredited dental training institutions or programs, community dental programs, and programs operated by the Indian Health Service (including federally recognized Indian tribes that receive medical services from the Indian Health Service, urban Indian health programs funded under title V of the Indian Health Care Improvement Act [[25 U.S.C. 1651](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title25-section1651&num=0&edition=prelim) et seq.], and tribes that contract with the Indian Health Service pursuant to the Indian Self-Determination and Education Assistance Act [[25 U.S.C. 5301](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title25-section5301&num=0&edition=prelim) et seq.]) to enable such schools, institutions, and programs to develop programs of oral health promotion, to increase training of oral health services providers in accordance with State practice laws, or to increase the utilization of dental services by eligible children. **(c) Distribution** In awarding grants under this section, the Secretary shall, to the extent practicable, ensure an equitable national geographic distribution of the grants, including areas of the United States where

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