---
kind: "section"
citation: "38 U.S.C. § 1730A"
title: "38"
title_heading: "Veterans’ Benefits"
number: "1730A"
heading: "Prohibition on collection of copayments from certain veterans"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/38/1730A"
units:
  - "Part II — General Benefits"
  - "Chapter 17 — Hospital, Nursing Home, Domiciliary, and Medical Care"
  - "Subchapter III — Miscellaneous Provisions Relating to Hospital and Nursing Home Care and Medical Treatment of Veterans"
---

# §1730A. Prohibition on collection of copayments from certain veterans

- (a) **Prohibition.—** Notwithstanding subsections [(f)](/usc/38/1710.md?p=f) and [(g)](/usc/38/1710.md?p=g) of section 1710 and [section 1722A(a) of this title](/usc/38/1722A.md?p=a) or any other provision of law, the [Secretary](/usc/38/101.md?p=1) may not require a [covered veteran](/usc/38/1831.md?p=3) to make any copayment for the receipt of [hospital care](/usc/38/1701.md?p=5) or [medical services](/usc/38/1701.md?p=6) under the laws administered by the [Secretary](/usc/38/101.md?p=1).
- (b) **Covered Veteran Defined.—** In this section, the term “[covered veteran](/usc/38/1831.md?p=3)” means a [veteran](/usc/38/1101.md?p=1) who—
  - (1) is catastrophically disabled, as defined by the [Secretary](/usc/38/101.md?p=1); or
  - (2) is an Indian or urban Indian (as those terms are defined in section 4 of the Indian Health Care Improvement Act ([25 U.S.C. 1603](/usc/25/1603.md))).

## Source credit

(Added Pub. L. 111–163, title V, § 511(a), May 5, 2010, 124 Stat. 1164; amended Pub. L. 116–315, title III, § 3002(a), Jan. 5, 2021, 134 Stat. 4990.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Amendments

2021—Pub. L. 116–315 substituted “certain” for “catastrophically disabled” in section catchline, designated existing provisions as subsec. (a) and inserted heading, substituted “a covered veteran” for “a veteran who is catastrophically disabled, as defined by the Secretary,”, and added subsec. (b).

### Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

### Effective Date of 2021 Amendment

Pub. L. 116–315, title III, § 3002(c), Jan. 5, 2021, 134 Stat. 4991, provided that: “The amendments made by this section [amending this section] shall take effect on the day that is one year after the date of the enactment of this Act [Jan. 5, 2021].”