[Code of Federal Regulations]

[Title 42, Volume 1]

[Revised as of October 1, 2005]

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)