This information may help claimants with representation, as well as claimants who are not represented by an attorney or non attorney representative. Understanding how the Social Security Disability system works can make the difference between winning or not winning the continuing disability benefits and backpay to which a person is entitled. To win a claim for ongoing and past due benefits, claimants should learn about the disability process to improve their chances of winning. |
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What good is a social security doctor if he only sees you for a few minutes? You have to keep in mind this fact: when you go to a CE, or consultative exam: you are NOT going to a SSD doctor. You are going to a private physician who has contracted to perform a brief medical exam. The ONLY reason DDS sends you to a CE is if that they need recent medical evidence (not older than 30 or 60 days) in order to close the case. That is the only reason. The doctors who do consultative exams are usually those who are trying, for lack of a kinder phrase, to make a quick buck. And typically those exams last 10 minutes. If you get sent to a CE, it usually means that you haven't been treated recently, and this is "recently" in terms of when the DDS examiner is actually looking at the case. For example, if an examiner is reviewing a file and the last bit of medical evidence in the file is 60 days old, you can bet that a CE will be scheduled. Also, if your file has just one mention of depression (lets say your doctor wrote this in your records just once) and you have never alledged depression or been treated for depression, you will still have a good chance of being sent to a psychiatric consultative exam or an MSE (a mental status exam, which is something less than a full fledged psychiatric exam). How does DDS schedule these exams? They actually have an office called PRO (public relations office) and the workers in that office do nothing but 1. schedule consultative exams, and 2. try to recruit new doctors for those exams since doctors are constantly dropping out of the program. Disability Advocates Help with Claims Free Case Evaluation |
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