---
kind: "section"
citation: "25 U.S.C. § 1680b"
title: "25"
title_heading: "Indians"
number: "1680b"
heading: "National Health Service Corps"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/25/1680b"
units:
  - "Chapter 18 — Indian Health Care"
  - "Subchapter VI — Miscellaneous"
---

# §1680b. National Health Service Corps

- (a) **No reduction in services—** The [Secretary](/usc/25/1603.md?p=17) shall not remove a member of the National Health [Service](/usc/25/1603.md?p=18) Corps from an [Indian health program](/usc/25/1603.md?p=12) or [urban Indian organization](/usc/25/1603.md?p=29) or withdraw funding used to support such a member, unless the [Secretary](/usc/25/1603.md?p=17), acting through the [Service](/usc/25/1603.md?p=18), has ensured that the [Indians](/usc/25/1603.md?p=13) receiving [services](/usc/25/1603.md?p=18) from the member will experience no reduction in [services](/usc/25/1603.md?p=18).
- (b) **Treatment of Indian health programs—** At the request of an [Indian health program](/usc/25/1603.md?p=12), the [services](/usc/25/1603.md?p=18) of a member of the National Health [Service](/usc/25/1603.md?p=18) Corps assigned to the [Indian health program](/usc/25/1603.md?p=12) may be limited to the individuals who are eligible for [services](/usc/25/1603.md?p=18) from that [Indian health program](/usc/25/1603.md?p=12).

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 94–437, title VIII, § 812, formerly title VII, § 712, as added Pub. L. 100–713, title VII, § 706, Nov. 23, 1988, 102 Stat. 4828; renumbered title VIII, § 812, Pub. L. 102–573, title VII, § 701(a), (b), Oct. 29, 1992, 106 Stat. 4572; amended Pub. L. 111–148, title X, § 10221(a), Mar. 23, 2010, 124 Stat. 935.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Codification

Amendment by Pub. L. 111–148 is based on section 193 of title I of S. 1790, One Hundred Eleventh Congress, as reported by the Committee on Indian Affairs of the Senate in Dec. 2009, which was enacted into law by section 10221(a) of Pub. L. 111–148.

### Amendments

2010—Pub. L. 111–148 amended section generally, revising and restating former provisions as subsec. (a) and adding subsec. (b).