---
kind: "section"
citation: "10 U.S.C. § 1074o"
title: "10"
title_heading: "Armed Forces"
number: "1074o"
heading: "Provision of hyperbaric oxygen therapy for certain members"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/10/1074o"
units:
  - "Subtitle A — General Military Law"
  - "Part II — Personnel"
  - "Chapter 55 — Medical and Dental Care"
---

# §1074o. Provision of hyperbaric oxygen therapy for certain members

- (a) **In General.—** The [Secretary](/usc/10/4951.md?p=3) may furnish hyperbaric oxygen therapy available at a [military](/usc/10/801.md?p=8) medical treatment [facility](/usc/10/2700.md?p=2) to a covered member if such therapy is prescribed by a physician to treat post-traumatic stress disorder or traumatic brain injury.
- (b) **Covered Member Defined.—** In this section, the term “covered member” means a member of the [armed forces](/usc/10/101.md?p=a-4) who is—
  - (1) serving on [active duty](/usc/10/101.md?p=d-1); and
  - (2) diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder or traumatic brain injury.

## Source credit

(Added Pub. L. 115–91, div. A, title VII, § 703(a)(1), Dec. 12, 2017, 131 Stat. 1435.)

## Notes

### Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

### Effective Date

Pub. L. 115–91, div. A, title VII, § 703(b), Dec. 12, 2017, 131 Stat. 1435, provided that: “The amendments made by subsection (a) [enacting this section] shall take effect 90 days after the date of the enactment of this Act [Dec. 12, 2017].”