[Title 20 CFR 404.1517]
[Code of Federal Regulations (annual edition) - April 1, 1996 Edition]
[Title 20 - EMPLOYEES' BENEFITS]
[Chapter III - SOCIAL SECURITY ADMINISTRATION]
[Part 404 - FEDERAL OLD-AGE, SURVIVORS AND DISABILITY INSURANCE (1950- )]
[Subpart P - Determining Disability and Blindness]
[Sec. 404.1517 - Consultative examination at our expense.]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]




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    EMPLOYEES' BENEFITS
    SOCIAL SECURITY ADMINISTRATION
    FEDERAL OLD-AGE, SURVIVORS AND DISABILITY INSURANCE (1950- )
    Determining Disability and Blindness
  


Sec. 404.1517  Consultative examination at our expense.

    If your medical sources cannot or will not give us sufficient 
medical evidence about your impairment for us to determine whether you 
are disabled or blind, we may ask you to have one or more physical or 
mental examinations or tests. We will pay for these examinations. 
However, we will not pay for any medical examination arranged by you

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or your representative without our advance approval. If we arrange for 
the examination or test, we will give you reasonable notice of the date, 
time, and place the examination or test will be given, and the name of 
the person or facility who will do it. We will also give the examiner 
any necessary background information about your condition.

[56 FR 36956, Aug. 1, 1991]