42 USC § 250 - Medical care and treatment of Federal prisoners

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title: "42 USC § 250 - Medical care and treatment of Federal prisoners"
title_number: 42
title_name: "THE PUBLIC HEALTH AND WELFARE"
section_number: "250"
section_name: "Medical care and treatment of Federal prisoners"
chapter_number: 6
chapter_name: "PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE"
subchapter_number: "II"
subchapter_name: "GENERAL POWERS AND DUTIES"
part_number: "C"
part_name: "Hospitals, Medical Examinations, and Medical Care"
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currency: "119-84"
last_updated: "2026-04-17"
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source_credit: "(July 1, 1944, ch. 373, title III, § 323, 58 Stat. 697.)"
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# § 250. Medical care and treatment of Federal prisoners

section 4005 of title 18

The Service shall supervise and furnish medical treatment and other necessary medical, psychiatric, and related technical and scientific services, authorized by , in penal and correctional institutions of the United States.

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**Source Credit**: (July 1, 1944, ch. 373, title III, § 323, 58 Stat. 697.)

## Editorial Notes

### Codification

“” substituted in text for “the Act of , as amended (U.S.C., 1940 edition, title 18, secs. 751, 752)” on authority of , , the first section of which enacted Title 18, Crimes and Criminal Procedure.

## Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

### Change of Name

“Secretary of Health and Human Services” substituted for “Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare” pursuant to , which is classified to , Education.

## Executive Documents

### Transfer of Functions

Functions of Public Health Service, Surgeon General of Public Health Service, and all other officers and employees of Public Health Service, and functions of all agencies of or in Public Health Service transferred to Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare by Reorg. Plan No. 3 of 1966, eff. , 31 F.R. 8855, , set out as a note under .