[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 42, Volume 1]
[Revised as of October 1, 2002]
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[CITE: 42CFR31.13]

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                         TITLE 42--PUBLIC HEALTH
 
    CHAPTER I--PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE, DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN 
                                SERVICES
 
PART 31--MEDICAL CARE FOR CERTAIN PERSONNEL OF THE COAST GUARD, NATIONAL OCEAN SURVEY, PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE, AND FORMER LIGHTHOUSE SERVICE--Table of Contents
 
Sec. 31.13  Use of other than Service facilities.

    (a) When a person specified in Sec. 31.11 who is on active duty 
requires immediate medical, surgical, or dental treatment or 
hospitalization and the urgency of the situation does not permit 
treatment at a medical relief station or by a designated physician or 
designated dentist, an officer or other appropriate supervisory official 
of the Coast Guard may arrange for treatment or hospitalization.
    (b) In every such case of treatment or hospitalization, a full 
report thereof shall be submitted to the Surgeon General through Coast 
Guard headquarters. As soon as practicable, unless the interests of the 
patient or the Government require otherwise, treatment or 
hospitalization shall be continued at a medical relief station or by a 
designated physician or designated dentist or at another appropriate 
Federal medical facility.
    (c) When the necessary medical relief cannot be obtained from a 
medical relief station or a designated physician or designated dentist, 
preference shall be given to other Federal medical facilities when 
reasonably available and when conditions permit.
    (d) Vouchers on proper forms covering expenses for treatment or 
hospitalization under the circumstances specified in paragraph (a) of 
this section shall be forwarded to the Surgeon General through Coast 
Guard headquarters. Each such voucher shall be accompanied by or contain 
a statement of the facts necessitating the treatment or hospitalization. 
Unreasonable charges for emergency treatment or hospitalization will not 
be allowed.
    (e) Expenses for consultants or special services, or for dental 
treatment other than emergency measures to relieve pain, shall not be 
allowed except when authorized in advance by the headquarters of the 
Service or, in extraordinary cases, when subsequently approved by such 
headquarters upon receipt of report and satisfactory explanation as to 
the necessity and urgency therefor.

(Sec. 610(b), 58 Stat. 714 as amended; 33 U.S.C. 763c)