---
kind: "section"
citation: "38 U.S.C. § 1784"
title: "38"
title_heading: "Veterans’ Benefits"
number: "1784"
heading: "Humanitarian care"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/38/1784"
units:
  - "Part II — General Benefits"
  - "Chapter 17 — Hospital, Nursing Home, Domiciliary, and Medical Care"
  - "Subchapter VIII — Health Care of Persons Other Than Veterans"
---

# §1784. Humanitarian care


The [Secretary](/usc/38/101.md?p=1) may furnish [hospital care](/usc/38/1701.md?p=5) or [medical services](/usc/38/1701.md?p=6) as a humanitarian service in emergency cases, but the [Secretary](/usc/38/101.md?p=1) shall charge for such care and services at rates prescribed by the [Secretary](/usc/38/101.md?p=1).


## Source credit

(Added Pub. L. 107–135, title II, § 208(b), Jan. 23, 2002, 115 Stat. 2463.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Prior Provisions

Prior section 1784 was renumbered section 3684 of this title.