---
kind: "section"
citation: "28 C.F.R. § 549.70"
title: "28"
number: "549.70"
heading: "Purpose and scope."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/28/549.70"
---

# §549.70. Purpose and scope.

- (a) The Bureau of Prisons (Bureau) may, under certain circumstances, charge you, an inmate under our care and custody, a fee for providing you with health care services.
- (b) Generally, if you are an inmate as described in [§ 549.71](/cfr/28/549.71.md), you must pay a fee for health care services of $2.00 per health care visit if you:
  - (1) Receive health care services in connection with a health care visit that you requested, (except for services described in [§ 549.72](/cfr/28/549.72.md)); or
  - (2) Are found responsible through the Disciplinary Hearing Process to have injured an inmate who, as a result of the injury, requires a health care visit.

## Notes

### Source

Source: 70 FR 43050, July 26, 2005, unless otherwise noted.

### Authority

Authority: 5 U.S.C. 301; 10 U.S.C. 876b; 18 U.S.C. 3621, 3622, 3524, 4001, 4005, 4042, 4045, 4081, 4082 (Repealed in part as to offenses committed on or after November 1, 1987), Chapter 313, 5006-5024 (Repealed October 12, 1984 as to offenses committed after that date), 5039; 28 U.S.C. 509, 510.