
When and how we will average your earnings.Įvaluation guides if you are self-employed. What we mean by substantial gainful activity.Įvaluation guides if you are an employee. Listing of Medical-Vocational Guidelines in appendix 2.Įxertional and nonexertional limitations. Work which exists in the national economy. Your work experience as a vocational factor. Medical-vocational profiles showing an inability to make an adjustment to other work. When we will consider your vocational background. Responsibility for assessing your residual functional capacity. How we consider whether treatment is available.Įvaluating compliance with the treatment requirements.Įstablishment and use of referral and monitoring agencies. What we mean by approved institutions or facilities. Treatment required for individuals whose drug addiction or alcoholism is a contributing factor material to the determination of disability. How we will determine whether your drug addiction or alcoholism is a contributing factor material to the determination of disability. How we evaluate symptoms, including pain.

What we mean by an impairment(s) that is not severe.Įvaluating opinion evidence for claims filed before March 27, 2017. How we consider and articulate medical opinions and prior administrative medical findings for claims filed on or after March 27, 2017.Įstablishing that you have a medically determinable impairment(s). Procedures To Monitor the Consultative Examination Reviewing reports of consultative examinations.Īuthorizing and Monitoring the Referral ProcessĪuthorizing and monitoring the consultative examination. When a properly signed consultative examination report has not been received. Informing the medical source of examination scheduling, report content, and signature requirements. Purchase of medical examinations, laboratory tests, and other services. Objections to the medical source designated to perform the consultative examination. Other sources for consultative examinations. Who we will select to perform a consultative examination. Standards for the Type of Referral and for Report Content When we will not purchase a consultative examination. When we will purchase a consultative examination and how we will use it.

Standards To Be Used in Determining When a Consultative Examination Will Be Obtained in Connection With Disability Determinations If you do not appear at a consultative examination. If you fail to submit medical and other evidence. When we will not consider your impairment.Įvidence from our Federal or State agency medical or psychological consultants. Who makes disability and blindness determinations.Įvidence from excluded medical sources of evidence.ĭecisions by other governmental agencies and nongovernmental entities.
