Social Security Administration Disability Determination and Appeals Process: Hearing Before the Subcommittee on Social Security of the Committee on Ways and Means, House of Representatives, One Hundred Second Congress, First Session, May 2, 1991, Volume 4 |
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... residual functional capacity or RFC assessment is a key element in determining disability . Our previous work found ... functional capacities . We support efforts to better involve treating or consulting physi- cians in the ...
... residual functional capacity or RFC assessment is a key element in determining disability . Our previous work found ... functional capacities . We support efforts to better involve treating or consulting physi- cians in the ...
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... residual functional capacity " ( or RFC ) 6 is a key element in the determination of disability . Our previous work found these assessments to be the major area of disagreement between the DDS adjudicators and the ALJS . In a 5One such ...
... residual functional capacity " ( or RFC ) 6 is a key element in the determination of disability . Our previous work found these assessments to be the major area of disagreement between the DDS adjudicators and the ALJS . In a 5One such ...
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... appeals . As noted above , DDSS have only achieved cessation rates of around 10 to 12 percent in recent years for these types of cases . APPENDIX I RESIDUAL FUNCTIONAL CAPACITY DETERMINATIONS APPENDIX I Social security 6 46.
... appeals . As noted above , DDSS have only achieved cessation rates of around 10 to 12 percent in recent years for these types of cases . APPENDIX I RESIDUAL FUNCTIONAL CAPACITY DETERMINATIONS APPENDIX I Social security 6 46.
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... RESIDUAL FUNCTIONAL CAPACITY DETERMINATIONS APPENDIX I Social security regulations define " residual functional capacity " ( RFC ) as a medical assessment of what work activity a person can do despite his or her functional limitations ...
... RESIDUAL FUNCTIONAL CAPACITY DETERMINATIONS APPENDIX I Social security regulations define " residual functional capacity " ( RFC ) as a medical assessment of what work activity a person can do despite his or her functional limitations ...
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... residual functional capacity from not only the physicians paid by SSA and the DDSS but also from the treating physicians , hospitals and clinics of the claimant . Third , under SSA's contractual arrangement with the DDSa , the states ...
... residual functional capacity from not only the physicians paid by SSA and the DDSS but also from the treating physicians , hospitals and clinics of the claimant . Third , under SSA's contractual arrangement with the DDSa , the states ...
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Page 3 - OF REQUESTS TO BE HEARD: Requests to be heard at the hearing must be made by telephone to Traci Altman or Bradley Schreiber at (202) 225-1721 no later than the close of business, Tuesday, March 11, 1997.
Page 3 - Subcommittee may not be able to accommodate all requests to be heard. Those persons and organizations not scheduled for an oral appearance are encouraged to submit written statements for the record of the hearing. All persons requesting to be heard, whether they are scheduled for oral testimony or not, will be notified as soon as possible after the filing deadline. Witnesses scheduled to present oral testimony are required to summarize briefly their written statements in no more than five minutes....
Page 3 - All persons requesting to be heard, whether they are scheduled for oral testimony or not, will be notified as soon as possible after the filing deadline. Witnesses scheduled to present oral testimony are requested to briefly summarize their written statements.
Page 3 - ... they are scheduled for oral testimony or not, will be notified as soon as possible after the filing deadline. Witnesses scheduled to present oral testimony are required to summarize briefly their written statements in no more than five minutes. The Five-Minute Rule Will Be Strictly Enforced. The full written statement of each witness will be included in the printed record, in accordance with House Rules.
Page 60 - Approximately 50% of appeals taken to an ALJ hearing result in the award of benefits. The fourth, and final, level of administrative review is to the Social Security Appeals Council. This twenty member body, created by regulation, and chaired by the Associate...
Page 65 - If the conflict persists, the state agency's medical personnel should assume primary responsibility for evaluating the record with respect to the medical issues and for making a determination based on that record. (c) As part of this process, independent medical experts, or panels of experts, should be identified and retained for use as examining and nonexamining consultants, as appropriate. 4. Notice of deficiencies in medical evidence. SSA should require that claimants be informed specifically...
Page 63 - Second, medical sources are used to provide evidence of disability In Individual cases and to explain or elaborate upon medical evidence obtained from other sources. Medical sources provide evidence relating to individual claims to state agencies at the initial decision and reconsideration levels, to administrative law judges at the hearing level, and to the Appeals Council. Requests can be made to the claimant's treating physician or 1 If it is thought that current law precludes such a State Department...
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Page 101 - ... Mr. KEARNEY. I have no questions. Mr. WOOD. Mr. Jackson? Mr. JACKSON. I have no questions, Mr. Chairman, but have one request, and that is to file as a part of the record the brief of the American Bar Association on Communism and Marxism-Leninism, its Aims, Purposes, Objectives and Practices, and a resolution of the American Bar Association adopted by the house of delegates of the American Bar Association in February 1951, when it was resolved that the American Bar Association recommends that...