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[CITE: 10USC2559]

 
                         TITLE 10--ARMED FORCES
 
                    Subtitle A--General Military Law
 
                PART IV--SERVICE, SUPPLY, AND PROCUREMENT
 
        CHAPTER 152--ISSUE OF SUPPLIES, SERVICES, AND FACILITIES
 
Sec. 2559. Provision of medical care to foreign military and 
        diplomatic personnel: reimbursement required; waiver for 
        provision of reciprocal services
        
    (a) Reimbursement Required.--Except as provided in subsection (b), 
whenever the Secretary of Defense provides medical care in the United 
States on an inpatient basis to foreign military and diplomatic 
personnel or their dependents, the Secretary shall require that the 
United States be reimbursed for the costs of providing such care. 
Payments received as reimbursement for the provision of such care shall 
be credited to the appropriations against which charges were made for 
the provision of such care.
    (b) Waiver When Reciprocal Services Provided United States Military 
Personnel.--Notwithstanding subsection (a), the Secretary of Defense may 
provide inpatient medical care in the United States without cost to 
military personnel and their dependents from a foreign country if 
comparable care is made available to a comparable number of United 
States military personnel and their dependents in that foreign country.

(Added Pub. L. 101-510, div. A, title XIV, Sec. 1481(f)(1), Nov. 5, 
1990, 104 Stat. 1707, Sec. 2549; renumbered Sec. 2559, Pub. L. 106-398, 
Sec. 1 [[div. A], title X, Sec. 1033(b)(1)], Oct. 30, 2000, 114 Stat. 
1654, 1654A-260.)


                            Prior Provisions

    Provisions similar to those in this section were contained in Pub. 
L. 101-165, title IX, Sec. 9020, Nov. 21, 1989, 103 Stat. 1133, which 
was set out as a note under section 2241 of this title, prior to repeal 
by Pub. L. 101-510, Sec. 1481(f)(3).


                               Amendments

    2000--Pub. L. 106-398 renumbered section 2549 of this title as this 
section.
