Why would SSA’s doctors disagree with a diagnosis made by another doctor?
Unfortunately, disability cases are determined by individuals who never see the patient/claimant. Included in that group who never sees the claimant is Quality Control, a group that plays an important role at SSA. Disability cases are evaluated for “decisional errors” for the purpose of quality control. In other words, if an examiner or a unit physician makes a decision that a Quality Control examiner disagrees with, that decision is counted as an error. Since job security is involved here, examiners and unit physicians quickly learn what will be counted as an error and thus lean toward denials rather than favorable decisions. In fact, QA rarely sends back cases that were denied.
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