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5 U.S.C. § 5371 — Health care positions
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**(a)** For the purposes of this section, “health care” means direct patient-care services or services incident to direct patient-care services.
**(b)** The Office of Personnel Management may, with respect to any employee described in subsection (c), provide that 1 or more provisions of chapter 74 of title 38 shall apply—
(1) in lieu of any provision of chapter 51 or 61, subchapter V of chapter 55, or any other provision of this chapter; or
(2) notwithstanding any lack of specific authority for a matter with respect to which chapter 51 or 61, subchapter V of chapter 55, or this chapter, relates.
**(c)** Authority under subsection (b) may be exercised with respect to any employee holding a position—
(1) to which chapter 51 applies, excluding any Senior Executive Service position and any position in the Federal Bureau of Investigation and Drug Enforcement Administration Senior Executive Service; and
(2) which involves health care responsibilities.
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**(a)** For the purposes of this section, “health care” means direct patient-care services or services incident to direct patient-care services.
**(b)** The Office of Personnel Management may, with respect to any employee described in subsection (c), provide that 1 or more provisions of chapter 74 of title 38 shall apply—
(1) in lieu of any provision of chapter 51 or 61, subchapter V of chapter 55, or any other provision of this chapter; or
(2) notwithstanding any lack of specific authority for a matter with respect to which chapter 51 or 61, subchapter V of chapter 55, or this chapter, relates.
**(c)** Authority under subsection (b) may be exercised with respect to any employee holding a position—
(1) to which chapter 51 applies, excluding any Senior Executive Service position and any position in the Federal Bureau of Investigation and Drug Enforcement Administration Senior Executive Service; and
(2) which involves health care responsibilities.
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The Office of Personnel Management is an independent establishment in the executive branch. The Office shall have an official seal, which shall be judicially noticed, and shall have its principal office in the District of Columbia, and may have field offices in other appropriate locations.
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It is the policy of Congress that Federal pay fixing for employees under the General Schedule be based on the principles that—
(1) there be equal pay for substantially equal work within each local pay area;
(2) within each local pay area, pay distinctions be maintained in keeping with work and performance distinctions;
(3) Federal pay rates be comparable with non-Federal pay rates for the same levels of work within the same local pay area; and
(4) any existing pay disparities between Federal and non-Federal employees should be completely eliminated.
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**(a)** The Director of the Office of Personnel Management may establish, and from time to time revise, the maximum number of scientific or professional positions for carrying out research and development functions which require the services of specially qualified personnel which may be established outside of the General Schedule. Any such position may be established by action of the Director or, under such standards and procedures as the Office prescribes and publishes in such form as the Director may determine (including procedures under which the prior approval of the Director may be required), by agency action.
**(b)** The provisions of subsection (a) of this section shall not apply to any Senior Executive Service position (as defined in [section 3132(a) of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title5-section3132/a&num=0&edition=prelim)).
**(c)** In addition to the number of positions authorized by subsection (a) of this section, the Librarian of Congress may establish, without regard to the second sentence of subsection (a) of this section, not more than 8 scientific or professional positions to carry out the research and development functions of the Library of Congress which require the services of specially qualified personnel.
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For the purpose of this subchapter—
(1) “employee” means an employee to whom chapter 51 of this title applies, and a prevailing rate employee, as defined by [section 5342(a)(2) of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title5-section5342/a/2&num=0&edition=prelim), whose employment is other than on a temporary or term basis;
(2) “agency” has the meaning given it by [section 5102 of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title5-section5102&num=0&edition=prelim);
(3) “retained grade” means the grade used for determining benefits to which an employee to whom [section 5362 of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title5-section5362&num=0&edition=prelim) applies is entitled;
(4) “rate of basic pay” means—
(A) the rate of basic pay payable to an employee under law or regulations before any deductions or additions of any kind, but including—
(i) any applicable locality-based comparability payment under section 5304 or similar provision of law;
(ii) any applicable special pay under section 5305 or similar provision of law; and
(iii) subject to such regulations as the Office of Personnel Management may prescribe, any applicable existing retained rate of pay established under section 5363 or similar provision of law; and
(B) in the case of a prevailing rate employee, the scheduled rate of pay determined under section 5343;
(5) “covered pay schedule” means the General Schedule, any prevailing rate schedule established under subchapter IV of this chapter, or a special occupational pay system under subchapter IX;
(6) “position subject to this subchapter” means any position under a covered pay schedule;
(7) “reduction-in-force procedures” means procedures
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**(a)** Notwithstanding any other provision of law, and in order to recruit and retain highly qualified Government physicians, the head of an agency, subject to the provisions of this section, section 5307, and such regulations as the President or his designee may prescribe, may enter into a service agreement with a Government physician which provides for such physician to complete a specified period of service in such agency in return for an allowance for the duration of such agreement in an amount to be determined by the agency head and specified in the agreement, but not to exceed—
(1) $14,000 per annum if, at the time the agreement is entered into, the Government physician has served as a Government physician for twenty-four months or less, or
(2) $30,000 per annum if the Government physician has served as a Government physician for more than twenty-four months.
For the purpose of determining length of service as a Government physician, service as a physician under section 4104 or 4114 11 See References in Text note below. of title 38 or active service as a medical officer in the commissioned corps of the Public Health Service under Title II of the Public Health Service Act (42 U.S.C. ch. 6A) shall be deemed service as a Government physician.
**(b)** An allowance may not be paid pursuant to this section to any physician who—
(1) is employed on less than a half-time or intermittent basis,
(2) occupies an internship or residency training position,
(3) is a reemployed annuitant, or
(4) is fulfilling a scholarship obligation.
**(c)** The head of an agency, pursuant to such regulations, criteria, and conditions as the President or his designee may prescribe, shall determine categories of positions applicable to physicians in such agency with respect to which ther
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TITLE 5—GOVERNMENT ORGANIZATION AND EMPLOYEES
§ 5371
Guard, that is described in section 2105(c) of this title,
to employment in Department or Coast Guard, that is
not described in section 2105(c), or who moves from em-
ployment in Department or Coast Guard, that is not
described in section 2105(c), to employment in non-
appropriated fund instrumentality of Department or
Coast Guard, that is described in section 2105(c), see
section 7202(m)(1) of Pub. L. 101–508, set out as a note
under section 2105 of this title.
TRANSFER OF FUNCTIONS
For transfer of authorities, functions, personnel, and
assets of the Coast Guard, including the authorities
and functions of the Secretary of Transportation relat-
ing thereto, to the Department of Homeland Security,
and for treatment of related references, see sections
468(b), 551(d), 552(d), and 557 of Title 6, Domestic Secu-
rity, and the Department of Homeland Security Reor-
ganization Plan of November 25, 2002, as modified, set
out as a note under section 542 of Title 6.
§ 5366. Appeals
(a)(1) In the case of the termination of any
benefits available to an employee under this
subchapter on the grounds such employee de-
clined a reasonable offer of a position the grade
or pay of which was equal to or greater than his
retained grade or pay, such termination may be
appealed to the Office of Personnel Management
under procedures prescribed by the Office.
(2) Nothing in this subchapter shall be con-
strued to affect the right of any employee to ap-
peal—
(A) under section 5112(b) or 5346(c) of this
title, or otherwise, any reclassification of a
position; or
(B) under procedures prescribed by the Office
of Personnel Management, any reduction-in-
force action.
(b) For purposes of any appeal procedures
(oth
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