42 CFR 31.8
§ 31.8 Retired personnel; extent of treatment.
United States · 42 CFR — Public Health · Status: effective
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- 42 CFR 31.8, § 31.8 Retired personnel; extent of treatment, United States, version 1 as recorded 2026-07-09, yourstate.us, https://yourstate.us/provision/200640
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Full text
(a) A retired member of the Coast Guard, National Ocean Survey, or Public Health Service specified in § 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 to emergency measures necessary to relieve pain.
Legislative history
This is a federal regulation, adopted through agency rulemaking under the Administrative Procedure Act — not enacted by a recorded vote of Congress.