---
kind: "section"
citation: "10 U.S.C. § 2559"
title: "10"
title_heading: "Armed Forces"
number: "2559"
heading: "Provision of medical care to foreign military and diplomatic personnel: reimbursement required; waiver for provision of reciprocal services"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/10/2559"
units:
  - "Subtitle A — General Military Law"
  - "Part IV — Service, Supply, and Property"
  - "Chapter 152 — Issue of Supplies, Services, and Facilities"
---

# §2559. Provision of medical care to foreign military and diplomatic personnel: reimbursement required; waiver for provision of reciprocal services

- (a) **Reimbursement Required.—** Except as provided in [subsection (b)](#b), whenever the [Secretary](/usc/10/4951.md?p=3) of Defense provides medical care in the [United States](/usc/10/101.md?p=a-1) on an inpatient basis to foreign [military](/usc/10/801.md?p=8) and diplomatic personnel or their [dependents](/usc/10/1072.md?p=2), the [Secretary](/usc/10/4951.md?p=3) shall require that the [United States](/usc/10/101.md?p=a-1) be reimbursed for the costs of providing such care. Payments received as reimbursement for the provision of such care shall be credited to the appropriations against which charges were made for the provision of such care.
- (b) **Waiver When Reciprocal Services Provided United States Military Personnel.—** Notwithstanding [subsection (a)](#a), the [Secretary](/usc/10/4951.md?p=3) of Defense may provide inpatient medical care in the [United States](/usc/10/101.md?p=a-1) without cost to [military](/usc/10/801.md?p=8) personnel and their [dependents](/usc/10/1072.md?p=2) from a foreign country if comparable care is made available to a comparable number of [United States](/usc/10/101.md?p=a-1) [military](/usc/10/801.md?p=8) personnel and their [dependents](/usc/10/1072.md?p=2) in that foreign country.

## Source credit

(Added Pub. L. 101–510, div. A, title XIV, § 1481(f)(1), Nov. 5, 1990, 104 Stat. 1707, § 2549; renumbered § 2559, Pub. L. 106–398, § 1 [[div. A], title X, § 1033(b)(1)], Oct. 30, 2000, 114 Stat. 1654, 1654A–260.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Prior Provisions

Provisions similar to those in this section were contained in Pub. L. 101–165, title IX, § 9020, Nov. 21, 1989, 103 Stat. 1133, which was set out as a note under section 2241 of this title, prior to repeal by Pub. L. 101–510, § 1481(f)(3).

### Amendments

2000—Pub. L. 106–398 renumbered section 2549 of this title as this section.