{"data":{"id":"us/5-u.s.c.-5371","jurisdiction":"us","citation":"5 U.S.C. § 5371","heading":"Health care positions","body":"(a) For the purposes of this section, “health care” means direct patient-care services or services incident to direct patient-care services. (b) The Office of Personnel Management may, with respect to any employee described in subsection (c), provide that 1 or more provisions of chapter 74 of title 38 shall apply—(1) in lieu of any provision of chapter 51 or 61, subchapter V of chapter 55, or any other provision of this chapter; or (2) notwithstanding any lack of specific authority for a matter with respect to which chapter 51 or 61, subchapter V of chapter 55, or this chapter, relates. (c) Authority under subsection (b) may be exercised with respect to any employee holding a position—(1) to which chapter 51 applies, excluding any Senior Executive Service position and any position in the Federal Bureau of Investigation and Drug Enforcement Administration Senior Executive Service; and (2) which involves health care responsibilities.","path":["Title 5—GOVERNMENT ORGANIZATION AND EMPLOYEES","CHAPTER 53—PAY RATES AND SYSTEMS"],"source_url":"https://uscode.house.gov/download/releasepoints/us/pl/119/103/xml_usc05@119-103.zip","current_through":"Public Law 119-103 (09/02/2026)","vintage":"","retrieved_at":"2026-09-10T05:55:42Z","sha256":"00330c05b04464eb64bd866fca5d004cee0f481fb29ff156b88a875a4af7138d","source_id":"us","stale":false,"prev":"us/5-u.s.c.-5366","next":"us/5-u.s.c.-5372"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}