If you have received a claim denial notice from Social Security, you are familiar with the language used in these denials: We have determined that your condition is not severe enough to be considered disabling. In deciding this, we considered the medical records, your statements, and how your condition affects your ability to work….Doctors and [...]
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At some point in your Social Security disability case – usually during the initial application evaluation, but possibly later – Social Security will send you out for a “consultative examination” with one or more doctors. In my experience, the physical medicine consultative evaluations are fairly useless – Social Security tends to contract with “industrial clinics” [...]
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Earlier this month I received an email asking about initial application procedures from a gentleman who had visited my Georgia disability web site. This person had not yet applied and he wrote to ask me what he should expect when he did apply. After discussing with him the ways he could apply – either by [...]
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Hello and welcome to the final installment of my 3-part mini-series on the Social Security Disability consultative examination (CE). In this final post, I discuss what can you can expect at a CE and what kind of information that the CE will need to contain to substantiate your disability claim. Question: What type of information [...]
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Hello and welcome to Part 2 of my 3-part mini-series on Social Security Disability consultative exams (CE). In this post, I discuss how an independent medical examiner is chosen by the SSA for the purposes of conducting a CE. Question: How does the SSA choose a consultative examination source? Is there a list that they [...]
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I have been asked a few questions which relate to the Consultative Examination (CE), which is basically a doctor’s appointment sometimes scheduled on your behalf by the SSA if they feel that additional medical testing/evidence is required to help them render a decision in your case. In this and the following two posts, I will [...]
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