24 U.S.C. § 34 — Hospitalization of persons outside continental limits of United States; persons entitled; availability of other facilities; rate of charges; disposition of payments

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Naval hospitals outside the continental U.S. and in Alaska can treat federal employees, contractor employees, and their dependents — not just Navy and Marine families — but only when local non-federal hospitals aren't reasonably available. The President sets the charge rates, which get deposited under section 32.

This section expands who can get treated at naval hospitals outside the continental United States and in Alaska. Naval hospitals already treat naval and Marine Corps personnel and their dependents. This section adds officers and employees of any federal department or agency, employees of federal contractors and subcontractors, the dependents of all these people, and — in emergencies — any other people the Secretary of the Navy decides to allow. There's a limit: hospitalization and dispensary service for people other than naval and Marine Corps dependents is only allowed when reasonably accessible, appropriate non-federal hospitals are not otherwise available. The President sets, from time to time, the rate charged to these other patients, and that money must be deposited as required under section 32 of this title.

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In addition to those persons, including the dependents of naval and Marine Corps personnel, now authorized to receive hospitalization at naval hospitals, hospitalization and dispensary service may be provided at naval hospitals and dispensaries outside of the continental limits of the United States and in Alaska, to the officers and employees of any department or agency of the Federal Government, to employees of a contractor with the United States or his subcontractor, to the dependents of such persons, and in emergencies to such other persons as the Secretary of the Navy may prescribe: Provided, That such hospitalization and dispensary service to other than the dependents of naval and Marine Corps personnel shall be permitted only where facilities are not otherwise available in reasonably accessible and appropriate non-Federal hospitals. The charge for hospitalization or dispensary service for persons other than dependents of naval and Marine Corps personnel as specified in this section shall be at such rates as the President shall from time to time prescribe, and shall be deposited as provided in section 32 1 of this title.

Source credit: (May 10, 1943, ch. 95, § 4, 57 Stat. 81.)

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1943Enacted · Act of May 10, 1943, ch. 95 · 57 Stat. 81

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