[Code of Federal Regulations]

[Title 42, Volume 1]

[Revised as of October 1, 2006]

From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access

[CITE: 42CFR35.21]



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                         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.