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The Social Security Administration uses state disability agencies to process Social Security disability claims. Each state disability agency (usually called DDS, or disability determination services) has individual units composed of disability examiners, unit management, and unit medical consultants. Generally, Social Security disability medical consultants are physicians with various areas of expertise. Medical consultants may be orthopedists, surgeons, pediatricians, or general practitioners. Medical consultants provide medical advice to the disability examiners and review physical residual functional capacity, or RFC reports. What is a residual function capacity report (RFC)? The RFC is a write -up created by the disability examiners to evaluate an individual’s physical impairments. Generally, unit physicians review most RFC reports before a final Social Security disability claim decision is made. 
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