42 U.S.C. § 249: Medical care and treatment of quarantined and detained persons

Any person when detained in accordance with quarantine laws, or, at the request of the Immigration and Naturalization Service, any person detained by that Service, may be treated and cared for by the Public Health Service. Persons not entitled to treatment and care at institutions, hospitals, and stations of the Service may, in accordance with regulations of the Surgeon General, be admitted thereto for temporary treatment and care in case of emergency. Persons whose care and treatment is authorized by subsection (a) may, in accordance with regulations, receive such care and treatment at the expense of the Service from public or private medical or hospital facilities other than those of the Service, when authorized by the officer in charge of the station at which the application is made. on September 30, 1981 , is receiving inpatient hospital services at a Public Health Service hospital on the basis of the entitlement contained in section 322(a) of the Public Health Service Act ( 42 U.S.C. 249(a) ), as such section was in effect on such date, for treatment of a condition, requires continued hospitalization after such date for treatment of that condition (or requires outpatient services related to such condition), and the Secretary determines has no other source of inpatient hospital services available for continued treatment of that condition. September 30, 1982 , the end of the first 60-day consecutive period (beginning after September 30, 1981 ) during the entire period of which the individual is not an inpatient of a hospital. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the head of any Federal department or agency which provides, under other authority of law and through federal facilities, inpatient hospital services or outpatient services, or both, is authorized to provide inpatient hospital services (and related outpatient services) to individuals under contract or other arrangement with the Secretary pursuant to this section.”