[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: 20CFR220.63]

[Page 257]
 
                      TITLE 20--EMPLOYEES' BENEFITS
 
                  CHAPTER II--RAILROAD RETIREMENT BOARD
 
PART 220_DETERMINING DISABILITY--Table of Contents
 
                   Subpart G_Consultative Examinations
 
Sec. 220.63  Conflict of interest.

    All implications of possible conflict of interest between Board 
medical consultants and their medical practices will be avoided. Board 
review physicians or psychologists will not perform consultative 
examinations for the Board's disability programs without prior approval. 
In addition, they will not acquire or maintain, directly or indirectly, 
including any member of their families, any financial interest in a 
medical partnership or similar relationship in which consultative 
examinations are provided. Sometimes one of the Board's review 
physicians or psychologists will have prior knowledge of a case (e.g., 
the claimant was a patient). Where this is so, the physician or 
psychologist will not participate in the review or determination of the 
case. This does not preclude the physician or psychologist from 
submitting medical evidence based on prior treatment or examination of 
the claimant.