§ 1641 Treatment of payments under Social Security Act health benefits programs
§ 1642 Purchasing health care coverage
§ 1643 Amount and use of funds reimbursed through medicare and medicaid available to Indian Health Service
§ 1644 Grants to and contracts with the Service, Indian tribes, tribal organizations, and urban Indian organizations to facilitate outreach, enrollment, and coverage of Indians under Social Security Act health benefit programs and other health benefits programs
§ 1645 Sharing arrangements with Federal agencies
§ 1646 Authorization for emergency contract health services
§ 1647 Eligible Indian veteran services
§ 1647a Nondiscrimination under Federal health care programs in qualifications for reimbursement for services
§ 1647b Access to Federal insurance
§ 1647c General exceptions
§ 1647d Navajo Nation medicaid agency feasibility study

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  • Appraisal: A determination of property value.
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  • association: when used in reference to a corporation, shall be deemed to embrace the words "successors and assigns of such company or association" in like manner as if these last-named words, or words of similar import, were expressed. See 1 USC 5
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  • county: includes a parish, or any other equivalent subdivision of a State or Territory of the United States. See 1 USC 2
  • Deed: The legal instrument used to transfer title in real property from one person to another.
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  • individual: shall include every infant member of the species homo sapiens who is born alive at any stage of development. See 1 USC 8
  • Jurisdiction: (1) The legal authority of a court to hear and decide a case. Concurrent jurisdiction exists when two courts have simultaneous responsibility for the same case. (2) The geographic area over which the court has authority to decide cases.
  • Lease: A contract transferring the use of property or occupancy of land, space, structures, or equipment in consideration of a payment (e.g., rent). Source: OCC
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