---
kind: "section"
citation: "38 U.S.C. § 7413"
title: "38"
title_heading: "Veterans’ Benefits"
number: "7413"
heading: "Treatment of podiatrists; clinical oversight standards"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/38/7413"
units:
  - "Part V — Boards, Administrations, and Services"
  - "Chapter 74 — Veterans Health Administration—personnel"
  - "Subchapter I — Appointments"
---

# §7413. Treatment of podiatrists; clinical oversight standards

- (a) **Podiatrists.—** Except as provided by [subsection (b)](#b), a doctor of podiatric medicine who is appointed as a podiatrist under [section 7401(1) of this title](/usc/38/7401.md?p=1) is eligible for any supervisory position in the [Veterans](/usc/38/101.md?p=2) Health Administration to the same degree that a physician appointed under such section is eligible for the position.
- (b) **Establishment of Clinical Oversight Standards.—** The [Secretary](/usc/38/101.md?p=1), in consultation with appropriate stakeholders, shall establish standards to ensure that specialists appointed in the [Veterans](/usc/38/101.md?p=2) Health Administration to supervisory positions do not provide direct clinical oversight for purposes of peer review or practice evaluation for providers of other clinical specialties.

## Source credit

(Added Pub. L. 115–182, title V, § 502(a)(1), June 6, 2018, 132 Stat. 1475.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Codification

Section 502(a)(1) of Pub. L. 115–182, which directed that this section be added at the end of subchapter I of chapter 74, without specifying the Code title to be amended, was executed by adding this section at the end of this subchapter, to reflect the probable intent of Congress.