---
kind: "section"
citation: "38 U.S.C. § 7301"
title: "38"
title_heading: "Veterans’ Benefits"
number: "7301"
heading: "Functions of Veterans Health Administration: in general"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/38/7301"
units:
  - "Part V — Boards, Administrations, and Services"
  - "Chapter 73 — Veterans Health Administration—organization and Functions"
  - "Subchapter I — Organization"
---

# §7301. Functions of Veterans Health Administration: in general

- (a) There is in the Department of Veterans Affairs a [Veterans](/usc/38/101.md?p=2) Health Administration. The Under [Secretary](/usc/38/101.md?p=1) for Health is the head of the Administration. The Under [Secretary](/usc/38/101.md?p=1) for Health may be referred to as the Chief Medical Director.
- (b) The primary function of the Administration is to provide a complete medical and hospital service for the medical care and treatment of [veterans](/usc/38/101.md?p=2), as provided in this title and in regulations prescribed by the [Secretary](/usc/38/101.md?p=1) pursuant to this title.

## Source credit

(Added Pub. L. 102–40, title IV, § 401(a)(3), May 7, 1991, 105 Stat. 211; amended Pub. L. 102–405, title III, § 302(c)(1), (2), Oct. 9, 1992, 106 Stat. 1984.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Amendments

1992—Subsec. (a). Pub. L. 102–405 substituted “Under Secretary for Health is” for “Chief Medical Director is” and inserted at end “The Under Secretary for Health may be referred to as the Chief Medical Director.”