---
kind: "section"
citation: "20 C.F.R. § 30.412"
title: "20"
number: "30.412"
heading: "Who pays for second opinion and referee examinations?"
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/20/30.412"
---

# §30.412. Who pays for second opinion and referee examinations?


OWCP will pay second opinion and referee medical specialists directly. OWCP will also reimburse the employee for all necessary and reasonable expenses incident to such an examination, including transportation costs and actual wages the employee lost for the time needed to submit to an examination required by OWCP.


## Notes

### Authority

Authority: 5 U.S.C. 301; 31 U.S.C. 3716 and 3717; 42 U.S.C. 7384d, 7384t, 7384u and 7385s-10; Executive Order 13179, 65 FR 77487, 3 CFR, 2000 Comp., p. 321; Secretary of Labor's Order No. 10-2009, 74 FR 58834.

### Source

Source: 71 FR 78534, Dec. 29, 2006, unless otherwise noted.