[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: 42CFR35.21]

[Page 116]
 
                         TITLE 42--PUBLIC HEALTH
 
    CHAPTER I--PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE, DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN 
                                SERVICES
 
PART 35--HOSPITAL AND STATION MANAGEMENT--Table of Contents
 
                     Subpart B--Transfer of Patients
 
Sec. 35.21  Authorization of transfer.


    Except as otherwise provided by law or regulation with respect to 
certain classes of patients, the officer in charge of a station or 
hospital of the Service may provide, without any cost to the patient, 
for the transfer of the patient either from such station or hospital to 
another station or hospital of the Service or to any non-Service station 
or hospital at which the patient may be received, or from any non-
Service hospital at which he is receiving care or treatment as a patient 
of the Service to a station or hospital of the Service.