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24 U.S.C. § 328 — Payment for care and treatment
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**(a) Persons liable; scope of liability; compromise or waiver; investigations; judicial proceedings** Any person hospitalized under [section 324 of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title24-section324&num=0&edition=prelim) or his estate, shall be liable to pay or contribute toward the payment of the costs or charges for his care and treatment to the same extent as such person would, if resident in the District of Columbia, be liable to pay, under the laws of the District of Columbia, for his care and maintenance in a hospital for the mentally ill in that jurisdiction. The Secretary may, in his discretion, where in his judgment substantial justice will be best served thereby or the probable recovery will not warrant the expense of collection, compromise or waive the whole or any portion of any claim under this section. In carrying out this section, the Secretary may make or cause to be made such investigations as may be necessary to determine the ability of any person hospitalized under [section 324 of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title24-section324&num=0&edition=prelim) to pay or contribute toward the cost of his hospitalization. All collections or reimbursement on account of the costs and charges for the care of the eligible person shall be deposited in the Treasury as miscellaneous receipts. Any judicial proceedings to recover such costs or charges shall be brought in the name of the United States in any court of competent jurisdiction.
**(b) “Costs or charges” defined** As used in this section, the term “costs or charges” means, in the case of hospitalization at a hospital under the jurisdiction of the Department of Health and Human Services, a per diem rate prescribed by the Secreta
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**(a) Persons liable; scope of liability; compromise or waiver; investigations; judicial proceedings** Any person hospitalized under [section 324 of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title24-section324&num=0&edition=prelim) or his estate, shall be liable to pay or contribute toward the payment of the costs or charges for his care and treatment to the same extent as such person would, if resident in the District of Columbia, be liable to pay, under the laws of the District of Columbia, for his care and maintenance in a hospital for the mentally ill in that jurisdiction. The Secretary may, in his discretion, where in his judgment substantial justice will be best served thereby or the probable recovery will not warrant the expense of collection, compromise or waive the whole or any portion of any claim under this section. In carrying out this section, the Secretary may make or cause to be made such investigations as may be necessary to determine the ability of any person hospitalized under [section 324 of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title24-section324&num=0&edition=prelim) to pay or contribute toward the cost of his hospitalization. All collections or reimbursement on account of the costs and charges for the care of the eligible person shall be deposited in the Treasury as miscellaneous receipts. Any judicial proceedings to recover such costs or charges shall be brought in the name of the United States in any court of competent jurisdiction.
**(b) “Costs or charges” defined** As used in this section, the term “costs or charges” means, in the case of hospitalization at a hospital under the jurisdiction of the Department of Health and Human Services, a per diem rate prescribed by the Secretary on a basis comparable to that charged for any other paying patients and, in the case of persons hospitalized elsewhere, the contract rate or a per diem rate fixed by the Secretary on the basis of the contract rate.
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**(a) Place of hospitalization** Until the transfer and release of an eligible person pursuant to [section 323 of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title24-section323&num=0&edition=prelim), the Secretary is authorized to provide care and treatment for such person at any Federal hospital within or (pursuant to agreement) outside of the Department, or (under contract or other arrangements made without regard to [section 6101 of title 41](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title41-section6101&num=0&edition=prelim)) at any other public or private hospital in any State and, for such purposes, to transfer such person to any such hospital from a place of temporary care provided pursuant to [section 322 of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title24-section322&num=0&edition=prelim). In determining the place of such hospitalization, the Secretary shall give due weight to the best interests of the patient.
**(b) Ineligible persons** The authority of the Secretary to provide hospitalization for any person under this section shall not apply to any person for whose medical care and treatment any agency of the United States is responsible.
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TITLE 24—HOSPITALS AND ASYLUMS
§ 329
spouse, or next of kin shall, if known, be imme-
diately notified.
(Pub. L. 86–571, § 5, July 5, 1960, 74 Stat. 309.)
§ 326. Release of patient
(a) Request; determination of right to retain; re-
tention after request
If a person who is a patient hospitalized under
section 322 or 324 of this title, or his legal guard-
ian, spouse, or adult next of kin, requests the re-
lease of such patient, the right of the Secretary,
or the head of the hospital, to detain him for
care and treatment shall be determined in ac-
cordance with such laws governing the deten-
tion, for care and treatment, of persons alleged
to be mentally ill as may be in force and appli-
cable generally in the State in which such hos-
pital is located, but in no event shall the patient
be detained more than forty-eight hours (exclud-
ing any period of time falling on a Sunday or
legal holiday) after the receipt of such request
unless within such time (1) judicial proceedings
for such hospitalization are commenced or (2) a
judicial extension of such time is obtained, for a
period of not more than five days, for the com-
mencement of such proceedings.
(b) Transfer to another hospital
The Secretary is authorized at any time, when
he deems it to be in the interest of the person or
of the institution affected, to transfer any per-
son hospitalized under section 324 of this title
from one hospital to another, and to that end
any judicial commitment of any person so hos-
pitalized may be to the Secretary.
(Pub. L. 86–571, § 6, July 5, 1960, 74 Stat. 309.)
§ 327. Notification to committing court of dis-
charge or conditional release
In the case of any person hospitalized under
section 324 of this title who has been judicially
committed to the Secr
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