[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: 42CFR37.202]



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                         TITLE 42--PUBLIC HEALTH

 

    CHAPTER I--PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE, DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN 

                                SERVICES

 

PART 37_SPECIFICATIONS FOR MEDICAL EXAMINATIONS OF UNDERGROUND COAL 

MINERS--Table of Contents

 

                            Subpart_Autopsies

 

Sec. 37.202  Payment for autopsy.



    (a) The Secretary will pay up to $200 to any pathologist who, after 

the effective date of the regulations in this part and with legal 

consent:

    (1) Performs an autopsy on a miner in accordance with this subpart; 

and

    (2) Submits the findings and other materials to ALFORD in accordance 

with this subpart within 180 calendar



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days after having performed the autopsy; and

    (3) Receives no other specific payment, fee, or reimbursement in 

connection with the autopsy from the miner's widow, his family, his 

estate, or any other Federal agency.

    (b) The Secretary will pay to any pathologist entitled to payment 

under paragraph (a) of this section and additional $10 if the 

pathologist can obtain and submits a good quality copy or original of a 

chest roentgenogram (posteroanterior view) made of the subject of the 

autopsy within 5 years prior to his death together with a copy of any 

interpretation made.



[35 FR 13206, Aug. 19, 1970, as amended at 38 FR 16353, June 22, 1973]