§ 5125. Acceptance of reports of private physician examinations

Legislative history

Reconstructed from this section’s Code source credit and amendment notes, resolved against the local Statutes at Large. Editorial notes are evidence, not the law that made the change.

1. 1994

   Veterans’ Benefits Improvements Act of 1994

   Pub. L. 103–446 title III § 301(b) · 108 Stat. 4645

   Enacted · 38 U.S.C. § 5125

   (Added Pub. L. 103–446, title III, § 301(b), Nov. 2, 1994, 108 Stat. 4658.)

   Source evidence

   Code source credit
   (Added Pub. L. 103–446, title III, § 301(b), Nov. 2, 1994, 108 Stat. 4658.)

   Enacted provision · exact public law section
   (b) Reports of Examinations by Private Physicians.— Such chapter, as amended by subsection (a), is further amended by adding at the end the following new section: “§ 5125. Acceptance of reports of private physician examinations “For purposes of establishing any claim for benefits under chapter 11 or 15 of this title, a report of a medical examination administered by a private physician that is provided by a claimant in support of a claim for benefits under that chapter may be accepted without a requirement for confirmation by an examination by a physician employed by the Veterans Health Administration if the report is sufficiently complete to be adequate for the purpose of adjudicating such claim.”.

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