---
kind: "unit"
title: "38"
title_heading: "Veterans’ Benefits"
key: "ptII/ch17/schIII"
level: "subchapter"
label: "Subchapter III"
heading: "Miscellaneous Provisions Relating to Hospital and Nursing Home Care and Medical Treatment of Veterans"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/38/ptII-ch17-schIII"
sections_count: 19
---

# Subchapter III — Miscellaneous Provisions Relating to Hospital and Nursing Home Care and Medical Treatment of Veterans

Title 38 — Veterans’ Benefits › Part II — General Benefits › Chapter 17 — Hospital, Nursing Home, Domiciliary, and Medical Care

## Sections

- [§1721. Power to make rules and regulations](/usc/38/1721.md)
- [§1722. Determination of inability to defray necessary expenses; income thresholds](/usc/38/1722.md)
- [§1722A. Copayment for medications](/usc/38/1722A.md)
- [§1722B. Copayments: waiver of collection of copayments for telehealth and telemedicine visits of veterans](/usc/38/1722B.md)
- [§1722C. Copayments: prohibition on collection of copayments for first three mental health care outpatient visits of veterans](/usc/38/1722C.md)
- [§1723. Furnishing of clothing](/usc/38/1723.md)
- [§1724. Hospital care, medical services, and nursing home care abroad](/usc/38/1724.md)
- [§1725. Reimbursement for emergency treatment](/usc/38/1725.md)
- [§1725A. Access to walk-in care](/usc/38/1725A.md)
- [§1726. Reimbursement for loss of personal effects by natural disaster](/usc/38/1726.md)
- [§1727. Persons eligible under prior law](/usc/38/1727.md)
- [§1728. Reimbursement of certain medical expenses](/usc/38/1728.md)
- [§1729. Recovery by the United States of the cost of certain care and services](/usc/38/1729.md)
- [§1729A. Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Care Collections Fund](/usc/38/1729A.md)
- [§1729B. Consolidated patient accounting centers](/usc/38/1729B.md)
- [§1730. Community residential care](/usc/38/1730.md)
- [§1730A. Prohibition on collection of copayments from certain veterans](/usc/38/1730A.md)
- [§1730B. Access to State prescription drug monitoring programs](/usc/38/1730B.md)
- [§1730C. Licensure of health care professionals providing treatment via telemedicine](/usc/38/1730C.md)