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Charges.

Payment regulations.

72 Stat. 1446.

Retarded or handicapped individuals.

Exceptional provisions.

PUBLIC LAW 89-614-SEPT. 30, 1966

[80 STAT.

"(3) routine care of the newborn, well-baby care, and eye examinations may not be provided; "(4) under joint regulations to be prescribed by the Secretary of Defense and the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare, the services of Christian Science practitioners and nurses and services obtained in Christian Science sanatoriums may be provided; "(5) durable equipment, such as wheelchairs, iron lungs and hospital beds may be provided on a rental basis. " (b) Plans covered by subsection (a) shall include provisions for payment by the patient of the following amounts: "(1) $25 for each admission to a hospital, or the amount the patient would have been charged under section 1078(a) of this title had the care being paid for been obtained in a hospital of the uniformed services, whichever amount is the greater. "(2) Except as provided in clause (3), the first $50 each fiscal year of the charges for all types of care authorized by subsection (a) and received while in an outpatient status and 20 per centum of all subsequent charges for such care during a fiscal year. "(3) A. family group of two or more persons covered by this section shall not be required to pay collectively more than the first $100 each fiscal year of the charges for all types of care authorized by subsection (a) and received while in an outpatient status and 20 per centum of the additional charges for such care during a fiscal year. "(c) The methods for making payment under subsection (b) shall be prescribed under joint regulations issued by the Secretary of Defense and the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare. " (d) Under joint regulations to be prescribed by the Secretary of Defense and the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare, in the case of a dependent, as defined in section 1072(2)(A), (C), or (E) of this title, of a member of the uniformed services on active duty for a period of more than thirty days, who is moderately or severely mentally retarded or who has a serious physical handicap, the plans covered by subsection (a) shall, with respect to the retardation or handicap of such dependent, include the following: "(1) Diagnosis. " (2) Inpatient, outpatient, and home treatment. " (3) Training, rehabilitation, and special education. "(4) Institutional care in private nonprofit, public and State institutions and facilities and, when appropriate, transportation to and from such institutions and facilities. "(e) Members shall be required to share in the cost of any benefits provided their dependents under subsection (d). "(1) Except as provided in clause (3), members in the lowest enlisted pay grade shall be required to pay the first $25 incurred each month and members in the highest commissioned pay grade shall similarly be required to pay $250 per month. The amounts to be similarly paid by members in all other pay grades shall be determined under joint regulations to be prescribed by the Secretary of Defense and the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare. "(2) Except as provided in clause (4), the Government's share of the cost of any benefits provided in a particular case under subsection (d) shall not exceed $350 per month. "(3) Members shall also be required to pay each month that amount, if any, remaining after the Government's maximum share has been reached.

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