[Code of Federal Regulations]

[Title 38, Volume 1]

[Revised as of July 1, 2005]

From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access

[CITE: 38CFR4.68]



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            TITLE 38--PENSIONS, BONUSES, AND VETERANS' RELIEF

 

                CHAPTER I--DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS

 

PART 4_SCHEDULE FOR RATING DISABILITIES--Table of Contents

 

                      Subpart B_Disability Ratings

 

Sec. 4.68  Amputation rule.



    The combined rating for disabilities of an extremity shall not 

exceed the rating for the amputation at the elective level, were 

amputation to be performed. For example, the combined evaluations for 

disabilities below the knee shall not exceed the 40 percent evaluation, 

diagnostic code 5165. This 40 percent rating may be further combined 

with evaluation for disabilities above the knee but not to exceed the 

above the knee amputation elective level. Painful neuroma of a stump 

after amputation shall be assigned the evaluation for the elective site 

of reamputation.