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42 U.S.C. § 249 — Medical care and treatment of quarantined and detained persons
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**(a) Persons entitled to treatment** Any person when detained in accordance with quarantine laws, or, at the request of the Immigration and Naturalization Service, any person detained by that Service, may be treated and cared for by the Public Health Service.
**(b) Temporary treatment in emergency cases** Persons not entitled to treatment and care at institutions, hospitals, and stations of the Service may, in accordance with regulations of the Surgeon General, be admitted thereto for temporary treatment and care in case of emergency.
**(c) Authorization for outside treatment** Persons whose care and treatment is authorized by subsection (a) may, in accordance with regulations, receive such care and treatment at the expense of the Service from public or private medical or hospital facilities other than those of the Service, when authorized by the officer in charge of the station at which the application is made.
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**(a) Persons entitled to treatment** Any person when detained in accordance with quarantine laws, or, at the request of the Immigration and Naturalization Service, any person detained by that Service, may be treated and cared for by the Public Health Service.
**(b) Temporary treatment in emergency cases** Persons not entitled to treatment and care at institutions, hospitals, and stations of the Service may, in accordance with regulations of the Surgeon General, be admitted thereto for temporary treatment and care in case of emergency.
**(c) Authorization for outside treatment** Persons whose care and treatment is authorized by subsection (a) may, in accordance with regulations, receive such care and treatment at the expense of the Service from public or private medical or hospital facilities other than those of the Service, when authorized by the officer in charge of the station at which the application is made.
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There is created and established in the Department of Justice an Immigration and Naturalization Service.
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When used in this chapter—
**(a)** The term “Service” means the Public Health Service;
**(b)** The term “Surgeon General” means the Surgeon General of the Public Health Service;
**(c)** Unless the context otherwise requires, the term “Secretary” means the Secretary of Health and Human Services.
**(d)** The term “regulations”, except when otherwise specified, means rules and regulations made by the Surgeon General with the approval of the Secretary;
**(e)** The term “executive department” means any executive department, agency, or independent establishment of the United States or any corporation wholly owned by the United States;
**(f)** Except as provided in sections 246(g)(4)(B),11 See References in Text note below. 247c(c)(1),1 254d(h)(3),1 263c(5),1 264(d), 292a(9),1 300a(c), 300f(13), and 300n(1) 1 of this title, the term “State” includes, in addition to the several States, only the District of Columbia, Guam, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, the Northern Mariana Islands, the Virgin Islands, American Samoa, the Federated States of Micronesia, the Republic of the Marshall Islands, and the Republic of Palau.
**(g)** The term “possession” includes, among other possessions, Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands;
**(h)** Repealed. Pub. L. 97–35, title IX, § 986(a), Aug. 13, 1981, 95 Stat. 603.
**(i)** The term “vessel” includes every description of watercraft or other artificial contrivance used, or capable of being used, as a means of transportation on water, exclusive of aircraft and amphibious contrivances;
**(j)** The term “habit-forming narcotic drug” or “narcotic” means opium and coca leaves and the several alkaloids derived therefrom, the best known of these alkaloids being morphia, heroin, and codeine, obtained from opium, and cocaine derived from the coca
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Amounts chargeable to and available from Federal sources for inpatient and outpatient services provided through Saint Elizabeths Hospital as authorized by [24 U.S.C. 191](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title24-section191&num=0&edition=prelim), 196, 211, 212, 222, 253,11 See References in Text note below. and 324; [31 U.S.C. 1535](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title31-section1535&num=0&edition=prelim); and [42 U.S.C. 249](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title42-section249&num=0&edition=prelim) and 251 shall not exceed the estimated total cost of such services as computed using only the proportionate amount of the direct Federal subsidy appropriated under this heading.
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### Statutory Notes
Section 26, acts Mar. 3, 1919, ch. 98, § 1, 40 Stat. 1302; Aug. 9, 1921, ch. 57, § 7, 42 Stat. 149; July 3, 1930, ch. 863, § 1, 46 Stat. 1016, provided for additional hospital and sanatorium facilities. See sections 249, 251, and 253 of Title 42, The Public Health and Welfare, and [section 763c of Title 33](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title33-section763c&num=0&edition=prelim), Navigation and Navigable Waters.
Section 26a, R.S. § 4803; acts June 26, 1884, ch. 121, § 15, 23 Stat. 57; Mar. 3, 1905, ch. 1484, § 1, 33 Stat. 1217; Aug. 14, 1912, ch. 288, § 1, 37 Stat. 309; 1939 Reorg. Plan No. I, §§ 201, 205(b), eff. July 1, 1939, 4 F.R. 2728, 2729, 53 Stat. 1424, 1425, provided for use of certain funds for the relief of sick and disabled seamen. See [section 249 of Title 42](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title42-section249&num=0&edition=prelim), The Public Health and Welfare.
Section 27, act Mar. 3, 1919, ch. 98, § 2, 40 Stat. 1302, provided for transfer of hospitals to Treasury Department for the Public Health Service. See [section 248 of Title 42](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title42-section248&num=0&edition=prelim).
Section 28, acts Mar. 3, 1919, ch. 98, § 3, 40 Stat. 1303; Mar. 4, 1921, ch. 156, 41 Stat. 1365, provided for transfer of property and equipment by Secretary of War to the Treasury Department for use of the Public Health Service.
#### Renumbering of Repealing Act
For renumbering of act July 1, 1944, which repealed these sections, see note set out under sections 1, 2 of this title.
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### Statutory Notes
Section 7, R.S. § 4806; acts Mar. 3, 1875, ch. 156, § 4, 18 Stat. 485; Aug. 14, 1912, ch. 288, § 1, 37 Stat. 309; July 26, 1916, ch. 256, 39 Stat. 390; 1939 Reorg. Plan No. I, §§ 201, 205(b), eff. July 1, 1939, 4 F.R. 2728, 2729, 53 Stat. 1424, 1425, provided for lease and sale of hospitals. See [section 248 of Title 42](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title42-section248&num=0&edition=prelim), The Public Health and Welfare.
Section 8, acts Aug. 4, 1894, ch. 213, 28 Stat. 229; Jan. 28, 1915, ch. 20, § 2, 38 Stat. 801; July 30, 1937, ch. 545, § 2, 50 Stat. 548; 1939 Reorg. Plan No. I, §§ 201, 205(b), eff. July 1, 1939, 4 F.R. 2728, 2729, 53 Stat. 1424, 1425, provided for admission of Coast Guard personnel and their families to hospitals. See [section 253 of Title 42](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title42-section253&num=0&edition=prelim). Act Jan. 28, 1915, ch. 20, § 2, 38 Stat. 801 was also repealed by act Aug. 4, 1949, ch. 393, § 20, 63 Stat. 561.
Section 9, act June 23, 1913, ch. 3, § 1, 38 Stat. 24, provided for hospital relief of officers and employees of the Public Health Service. See sections 249 and 253 of Title 42.
Section 10, act July 1, 1918, ch. 113, § 1, 40 Stat. 694, provided for hospital relief for officers and crews of the Fish and Wildlife Service. See [section 249 of Title 42](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title42-section249&num=0&edition=prelim).
Section 11, acts Mar. 3, 1875, ch. 156, § 6, 18 Stat. 486; Aug. 14, 1912, ch. 288, § 1, 37 Stat. 309; 1939 Reorg. Plan No. I, §§ 201, 205(b), eff. July 1, 1939, 4 F.R. 2728, 2729, 53 Stat. 1424, 1425, provided for care of foreign seamen. See [section 249 of Title 42](https://uscode.house.gov/view.x
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The Immigration and Naturalization Service may, by agreement of the heads of the departments concerned, permit the Public Health Service to use hospitals at immigration stations for the care of Public Health Service patients. The Surgeon General shall reimburse the Immigration and Naturalization Service for the actual cost of furnishing fuel, light, water, telephone, and similar supplies and services, which reimbursement shall be covered into the proper Immigration and Naturalization Service appropriation, or such costs may be paid from working funds established as provided by law, but no charge shall be made for the expense of physical upkeep of the hospitals. The Immigration and Naturalization Service shall reimburse the Surgeon General for the care and treatment of persons detained in hospitals of the Public Health Service at the request of the Immigration and Naturalization Service unless such persons are entitled to care and treatment under section 249(a) 11 See References in Text note below. of this title.
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**(a) Deadline for closure, transfer, or financial self-sufficiency** The Secretary of Health and Human Services (hereinafter in this subtitle referred to as the “Secretary”) shall, in accordance with this section and notwithstanding [section 248a of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title42-section248a&num=0&edition=prelim), provide for the closure, transfer, or financial self-sufficiency of all hospitals and other stations of the Public Health Service (hereinafter in this subtitle referred to as the “Service”) not later than September 30, 1982.
**(b) Proposals for transfer or financial self-sufficiency** Not later than July 1, 1981, the Secretary shall notify each Service hospital and other station, and the chief executive officer of each State and of each locality in which such a hospital or other station is located, that the Secretary will accept proposals for the transfer of each such hospital and station from the Service to a public (including Federal) or nonprofit private entity or for the achievement of financial self-sufficiency of each such hospital and station not later than September 30, 1982. No such proposal shall be considered by the Secretary if it is submitted later than September 1, 1981.
**(c) Evaluation of proposals** The Secretary shall evaluate promptly each proposal submitted under subsection (b) with respect to a hospital or other station and determine, not later than September 30, 1981, whether or not under such proposal the hospital or station—
(1) will be maintained as a general health care facility providing a range of services to the population within its service area,
(2) will continue to make services available to existing patient populations, and
(3) has a reasonable expectation of financial via
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**(a) Designation by Secretary; removal from areas designated; “medical facility” defined**
(1) For purposes of this subpart the term “health professional shortage area” means (A) an area in an urban or rural area (which need not conform to the geographic boundaries of a political subdivision and which is a rational area for the delivery of health services) which the Secretary determines has a health manpower shortage and which is not reasonably accessible to an adequately served area, (B) a population group which the Secretary determines has such a shortage, or (C) a public or nonprofit private medical facility or other public facility which the Secretary determines has such a shortage. All Federally qualified health centers and rural health clinics, as defined in section 1861(aa) of the Social Security Act ([42 U.S.C. 1395x(aa)](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title42-section1395x/aa&num=0&edition=prelim)), that meet the requirements of [section 254g of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title42-section254g&num=0&edition=prelim) shall be automatically designated as having such a shortage. The Secretary shall not remove an area from the areas determined to be health professional shortage areas under subparagraph (A) of the preceding sentence until the Secretary has afforded interested persons and groups in such area an opportunity to provide data and information in support of the designation as a health professional shortage area or a population group described in subparagraph (B) of such sentence or a facility described in subparagraph (C) of such sentence, and has made a determination on the basis of the data and information submitted by such persons and groups and other data and information availabl
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**(a) Conditions; exceptions; persons liable; amount of recovery; subrogation; assignment** In any case in which the United States is authorized or required by law to furnish or pay for hospital, medical, surgical, or dental care and treatment (including prostheses and medical appliances) to a person who is injured or suffers a disease, after the effective date of this Act, under circumstances creating a tort liability upon some third person (other than or in addition to the United States and except employers of seamen treated under the provisions of [section 249 of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title42-section249&num=0&edition=prelim)) to pay damages therefor, the United States shall have a right to recover (independent of the rights of the injured or diseased person) from said third person, or that person’s insurer, the reasonable value of the care and treatment so furnished, to be furnished, paid for, or to be paid for and shall, as to this right be subrogated to any right or claim that the injured or diseased person, his guardian, personal representative, estate, dependents, or survivors has against such third person to the extent of the reasonable value of the care and treatment so furnished, to be furnished, paid for, or to be paid for. The head of the department or agency of the United States furnishing such care or treatment may also require the injured or diseased person, his guardian, personal representative, estate, dependents, or survivors, as appropriate, to assign his claim or cause of action against the third person to the extent of that right or claim.
**(b) Recovery of cost of pay for member of uniformed services unable to perform duties** If a member of the uniformed services is injured, or contracts a diseas
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### Statutory Notes
Section 6, acts July 1, 1902, ch. 1370, § 1, 32 Stat. 712; Aug. 14, 1912, ch. 288, § 1, 37 Stat. 309, provided for care of sick and disabled seamen. See [section 249 of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title42-section249&num=0&edition=prelim).
Section 6a, act Mar. 31, 1936, ch. 161, 49 Stat. 1185, provided for care of seamen on Government vessels not in Military or Naval Establishments and of cadets on State school ships. See [section 249 of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title42-section249&num=0&edition=prelim).
Section 7, act Aug. 14, 1912, ch. 288, § 1, 37 Stat. 309, provided for investigations by Service into diseases, etc., and publications relating thereto. See [section 241 of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title42-section241&num=0&edition=prelim).
Section 8, acts July 1, 1902, ch. 1370, § 4, 32 Stat. 713; Aug. 14, 1912, ch. 288, § 1, 37 Stat. 309, provided for use of Service in time of war. See [section 217 of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title42-section217&num=0&edition=prelim).
Section 8a, act Apr. 9, 1930, ch. 125, § 2(a), 46 Stat. 150, provided for extension of facilities of Service to health officials and scientists. See [section 241 of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title42-section241&num=0&edition=prelim).
Section 9, act Oct. 1, 1918, ch. 179, § 2, 40 Stat. 1008, provided for suppression of Spanish influenza and other communicable diseases. See [section 264 of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title42-section264&num=0&edition=prelim).
Section 9a, act Apr. 9, 1930, ch. 125, § 3, 46 Stat
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