Hospitals & Asylums
Chapter 1 Navy Hospitals, Army and Navy Hospital, and Hospital Relief for Seamen and Others
§8 Coast Guard admitted to hospitals; relief for dependent members of family
Under such regulations as may be prescribed by the President, upon the recommendation of the Surgeon General with the approval of the Federal Security Administrator, all commissioned officers, chief warrant officers, warrant officers, cadets, and enlisted men of the Coast Guard, including those on shore duty and those on detached duty, whether on active duty or retired, shall be entitled to medical, surgical, and dental treatment and hospitalization by the Public Health Service; and the dependent members of families of officers and enlisted men of the Coast Guard shall be furnished medical advice and out-patient treatment by the Public Health Service at its first-, second-, and third-class relief stations, and such dependent members of families shall be furnished hospitalization at marine hospitals, if suitable accommodations are available, at a per-diem cost to the officer or enlisted man concerned equivalent to the uniform per-diem reimbursement rate for Government hospitals as approved by the President for each fiscal year. Collections of the Public Health Service for the hospitalization of such dependent members of families shall be credited to the applicable appropriation for the operation of marine hospitals and relief stations.
(Aug. 4, 1894, ch. 213, 28 Stat. 229; Jan. 28, 1915, ch. 20, §2, 38 Stat. 801; July 30, 1937, ch. 545, §2, 50 Stat. 548; 1939 Reorg. Plan No. I, §§201, 205(b), eff. July 1, 1939, 4 CFR 2728, 2729, 53 Stat. 1424, 1425. See section 253 of Title 42. Act Jan. 28, 1915, ch. 20, §2, 38 Stat. 801 was also repealed by act Aug. 4, 1949, ch. 393, §20, 63 Stat. 561; Repealed. July 1, 1944, ch. 373, title XIII, §1313, 58 Stat. 714; For renumbering of act July 1, 1944, which repealed these sections, see note set out under sections 1, 2 of this title)