diagnostic variation or conflicting medical evidence questions of credibility of evidence presented to the examiner, or any other matters specified by the VSCM such as rare disorders/rare etiologies, or sensitive or high priority claims. Notes: A VSCM may authorize a medical opinion in any case in which he/she believes it is warranted. A medical opinion request must be signed by the person who prepared it. Generally any VSR may order an examination using the Hearing Loss and Tinnitus DBQ, which includes certain routine etiology opinions. However, in cases where a separate Medical Opinion DBQ is required to solicit an opinion not included on the DBQ, the opinion request should be prepared by an RVSR or DRO. For more information on References: independent medical opinions under , see M21-1 Part III, Subpart iv, 3.A.7.m, and medical opinions and the Hearing Loss and Tinnitus DBQ, see M21-1 Part III, Subpart iv, 3.A.7.h. If requesting a medical opinion from a contract examination facility, ROs must b. Completing Medical use the CAATS application. Use the table below to determine how to generate Opinion the language for the medical opinion request(s). Requests in CAATS If requesting a medical opinion Then generate the medical opinion based on ... language using ... the . combat experiences MST, or For more information on the Reference: SC death procedure for using the ERB tool to generate medical opinion language, see M21-1, Part III, Subpart iv, 3.A.7.c and d, and . all other types of claims the embedded templates within CAATS. ROs must create all required tracked items in the appropriate Important: claims-processing system for the requested exam(s). For more information on References: requesting exams in CAATS, see the , and creating a tracked item, see the Veterans Benefits Management System (, or Modern Award Processing- Development (.
diagnostic variation or conflicting medical evidence questions of credibility of evidence presented to the examiner, or any other matters specified by the VSCM such as rare disorders/rare etiologies, or sensitive or high priority claims. Notes: A VSCM may authorize a medical opinion in any case in which he/she believes it is warranted. A medical opinion request must be signed by the person who prepared it. Generally any VSR may order an examination using the Hearing Loss and Tinnitus DBQ, which includes certain routine etiology opinions. However, in cases where a separate Medical Opinion DBQ is required to solicit an opinion not included on the DBQ, the opinion request should be prepared by an RVSR or DRO. References: For more information on independent medical opinions under , see M21-1 Part III, Subpart iv, 3.A.7.m, and medical opinions and the Hearing Loss and Tinnitus DBQ, see M21-1 Part III, Subpart iv, 3.A.7.h. b. Completing Medical Opinion Requests in CAATS If requesting a medical opinion from a contract examination facility, ROs must use the CAATS application. Use the table below to determine how to generate the language for the medical opinion request(s). If requesting a medical opinion based on ... Then generate the medical opinion language using ... combat experiences MST, or SC death the . Reference: For more information on the procedure for using the ERB tool to generate medical opinion language, see M21-1, Part III, Subpart iv, 3.A.7.c and d, and . all other types of claims the embedded templates within CAATS. Important: ROs must create all required tracked items in the appropriate claims-processing system for the requested exam(s). References: For more information on requesting exams in CAATS, see the , and creating a tracked item, see the Veterans Benefits Management System (, or Modern Award Processing- Development (.