[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 38, Volume 1]
[Revised as of January 1, 2007]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 38CFR8.22]

[Page 512-513]
 
            TITLE 38--PENSIONS, BONUSES, AND VETERANS' RELIEF
 
                CHAPTER I--DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS
 
PART 8_NATIONAL SERVICE LIFE INSURANCE--Table of Contents
 
Sec.  8.22  Examination of applicants for insurance or reinstatement.

    Where physical or mental examination is required of an applicant for 
National Service Life Insurance or of an applicant for reinstatement of 
National Service Life Insurance, such examination may be made by a 
medical officer of the United States Army, Navy, Air Force, or Public 
Health Service, or may be made free of charge to him or her by a full-
time or part-time salaried physician or a physician's assistant at a 
regional office or medical facility of the Department of Veterans 
Affairs. Such examination may also be made, at the applicant's own 
expense, by a physician duly licensed for the practice of medicine by a 
State, possession of the United States, Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, or 
the District of Columbia, or by a duly licensed osteopathic physician 
who is a graduate of a recognized and approved college of osteopathy and 
who is listed in the current directory of the American Osteopathic 
Association. Such examination may be made by a physician or osteopath 
who is not related to the applicant by blood or marriage, associated 
with him or her in business, or pecuniarily interested in the insurance 
or reinstatement of the policy. Examinations made in a foreign country 
by a physician duly licensed for the practice of medicine and otherwise 
acceptable may be accepted if submitted through the American consul. The 
Secretary of Veterans Affairs may require such further medical 
examination or additional medical evidence as may be deemed necessary 
and proper to establish the physical and

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mental condition of the applicant at the time of the application.

(Authority: 38 U.S.C. 1904 and 1905)

[30 FR 3650, Mar. 19, 1965, as amended at 47 FR 11659, Mar. 18, 1982. 
Redesignated and amended at 61 FR 29290, 29293, June 10, 1996. 
Redesignated at 65 FR 7437, Feb. 15, 2000]