Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:F2016L01332:reg:7
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Provision Reference: reg 7
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This step is only to be used if more than three ratings are to be combined.
To combine more than three ratings, reapply the instructions in steps 4, 5, and 6 to the remaining ratings. Always take the value obtained by performing Step 6 and combine that with the highest (or equal highest) of the remaining values. Continue until all ratings have been combined into a single value. This figure is the "Combined Impairment Rating".
                                Chapter 18: Combined Values Chart

    STEP             The individual impairment ratings for the various conditions being
      8 assessed are not to be rounded before they are combined using the
              chart in Table 18.1.

              If the combined impairment rating is not a multiple of five, it should be rounded to the nearest multiple of five. (For purposes of the preceding sentence, "0" is a multiple of five.) Figures ending on "3" or "4" or "8" or "9" should be rounded up, figures ending on "1" or "2" or "6" or "7" should be rounded down. (This also applies when the only impairment rating a veteran obtains = 2. In that case the combined impairment rating = 0.)

    Example

    To combine 35 and 20, read down the extreme left hand side column of the chart in Table 18.1 until you come to the larger value, 35. In the very bottom row of the chart read from left to right until you come to 20. At the intersection of the row on which
    35 is written, and the column above 20, is the number 48.

    Therefore, 35 combined with 20 is 48. Due to the construction of this chart, the larger impairment value must be identified at the side of the chart.

    Applying the formula to this example gives:

35 + 20 x (1 - 35