[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 20, Volume 1]
[Revised as of April 1, 2005]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 20CFR220.60]

[Page 255-256]
 
                      TITLE 20--EMPLOYEES' BENEFITS
 
                  CHAPTER II--RAILROAD RETIREMENT BOARD
 
PART 220_DETERMINING DISABILITY--Table of Contents
 
                   Subpart G_Consultative Examinations
 
Sec. 220.60  Diagnostic surgical procedures.

    The Board will not order diagnostic surgical procedures such as 
myelograms and arteriograms for the evaluation of disability under the 
Board's disability program. In addition, the Board

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will not order procedures such as cardiac catheterization and surgical 
biopsy. However, if any of these procedures have been performed as part 
of a workup by the claimant's treating physician or other medical 
source, the results may be secured and used to help evaluate an 
impairment(s)'s severity.