---
kind: "section"
citation: "38 U.S.C. § 5125"
title: "38"
title_heading: "Veterans’ Benefits"
number: "5125"
heading: "Acceptance of reports of private physician examinations"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/38/5125"
units:
  - "Part IV — General Administrative Provisions"
  - "Chapter 51 — Claims, Effective Dates, and Payments"
  - "Subchapter III — Payment of Benefits"
---

# §5125. Acceptance of reports of private physician examinations


For purposes of establishing any claim for benefits under chapter [11](/usc/38/chptII/ch11.md) or [15](/usc/38/chptII/ch15.md) of this title, a report of a medical examination administered by a private physician that is provided by a [claimant](/usc/38/5100.md?p=1) in support of a claim for benefits under that chapter may be accepted without a requirement for confirmation by an examination by a physician employed by the [Veterans](/usc/38/101.md?p=2) Health Administration if the report is sufficiently complete to be adequate for the purpose of adjudicating such claim.


## Source credit

(Added Pub. L. 103–446, title III, § 301(b), Nov. 2, 1994, 108 Stat. 4658.)