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Document Citation:
32 CFR 728.3
Header:
CODE OF FEDERAL REGULATIONS
TITLE 32 -- NATIONAL DEFENSE
SUBTITLE A -- DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE
CHAPTER VI -- DEPARTMENT OF THE NAVY
SUBCHAPTER C -- PERSONNEL
PART 728 -- MEDICAL AND DENTAL CARE FOR ELIGIBLE PERSONS AT NAVY MEDICAL DEPARTMENT FA
Date:
01/17/2012
Document:
§ 728.3 General restrictions and priorities.
(a) Restrictions. (1) Naval MTFs provide care to all eligible beneficiaries subject to the capabilities of the professional staff and the availability of space and facilities.
(2) Hospitalization and outpatient services may be provided outside the continental limits of the United States and in Alaska to officers and employees of any department or agency of the Federal Government, to employees of a contractor with the United States or the contractor's subcontractor, to accompanying dependents of such persons, and in emergencies to such other persons as the Secretary of the Navy may prescribe: Provided, such services are not otherwise available in reasonably accessible and appropriate non-Federal facilities. Hospitalization of such individuals in a naval MTF is limited to the treatment of acute medical and surgical conditions, exclusive of nervous, mental, or contagious diseases, or those requiring domiciliary care. Routine dental care, other than dental prosthesis or orthodontia, may be rendered on a space available basis outside the continental limits of the United States and in Alaska, Provided, such services are not otherwise available in reasonably accessible and appropriate non-Federal facilities.
(b) Priorities. When care cannot be rendered to all eligible beneficiaries, the priorities in the following chart will prevail. Make no distinction as to the sponsoring uniformed service when providing care or deciding priorities.
Priorities for the Various Categories of Personnel Eligible for Care in Navy
Medical Department Facilities
Priority Category Degree of entitlement
1 A. Members of the uniformed services on
active duty (including active duty for
training and inactive duty training) and
comparable personnel of the NATO nations
meeting the conditions prescribed in this
part See Subpart B.
B. Members of a Reserve Component of the
Armed Forces and National Guard personnel
under orders See Subpart C.
2 Dependents of active duty members of the
uniformed services, dependents of persons
who died while in such a status, and the
dependents of active duty members of NATO
nations meeting the conditions prescribed
in subpart E of this part See Subparts D and E.
3 Members of the Senior Reserve Officers'
Training Corps of the Armed Forces See § 728.23.
4 Retired members of the uniformed services
and their dependents and dependents of
deceased retired members See Subpart D.
5 Civilian employees of the Federal
Government under the limited circumstances
covered by the Federal Employees' Health
Service program See § 728.80.
6 All others, including ex-service maternity
eligibles See Subparts F and G.
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