[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 42, Volume 1]
[Revised as of October 1, 2002]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 42CFR31.8]

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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. 31.8  Retired personnel; extent of treatment.

    (a) A retired member of the Coast Guard, National Ocean Survey, or 
Public Health Service specified in Sec. 31.2 shall be entitled to 
medical, surgical, and dental treatment and hospitalization at medical 
relief stations of the first-, second-, and third-class, upon 
presentation of satisfactory evidence of his status.
    (b) Elective medical or surgical treatment requiring hospitalization 
shall be furnished only at hospitals operated by the Service.
    (c) Dental treatment shall be furnished to the extent of available 
facilities only at medical relief stations where full-time dental 
officers are on duty; at other medical relief stations the dental 
treatment shall be limited

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to emergency measures necessary to relieve pain.

(Sec. 326, 58 Stat. 697, as amended; 42 U.S.C. 253)