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PubMed1982

Federal Old-Age, Survivors, and Disability Insurance; revised medical criteria for the determination of disability--Social Security Administration. Proposed rules.

These proposed amendments revise the medical evaluation criteria for both the title II and title XVI disability programs. These criteria were last revised in 1979. The proposed revisions reflect advances in the medical treatment of some conditions and in the methods of evaluating certain impairments. These proposals will provide up-to-date medical criteria for use in the evaluation of disability claims.

Disability Evaluation↗
PubMed1997

[Use of the International Classification of Diseases for disability insurance in Switzerland: study of reproducibility].

The International Classification of Diseases (ICD-10) was introduced in a pilot phase for coding of diagnoses in a sample of cases encountered in the Swiss Disability Insurance (SDI), as a substitute for the SDI codes, judged unsuitable for the description of disability. The goal of this study is to evaluate the reliability of use of these codes, by studying the coding reproductibility between the Medical Observation Centers (MOC) and the Evaluation and Coordination Center. A second goal was to evaluate the feasibility of coding by non-physicians. Reliability of diagnoses was examined by level of precision: chapters, groups, categories and subcategories. The agreement between the two coding Centers varies from 78%, at the chapter level, to 29% at the most detailed level. This agreement is improved if taking into account the three main diagnoses for the comparison, reaching 91%. The results of the physician coder, concerning the precision and reliability of coding, are significantly superior to those of an economist coder and a medical secretary coder. To improve coding agreement, it is proposed to train coding professionals, provide coding tools, clarify which diagnosis is the main one, and seek a consensus for cases of systematic disagreement. The ideal level of precision should not be so high as to produce diagnostic codes with low reliability. It should, however, be precise enough to give a satisfactory description of the problems encountered.

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PubMed1988

The psychiatrist and the Social Security Disability Insurance and Supplemental Security Income programs.

As psychiatrists become more active in the care of the chronic mentally ill, they are taking a greater role in relation to the entitlement programs of Social Security Disability Insurance and Supplemental Security Income. In a review of the application and appeals processes of the disability determination system, the author focuses on areas in which psychiatrists are likely to be involved, such as identifying patients qualified to receive benefits, providing reports on their own patients for disability determination, and examining other patients as a consultant. Psychiatrists should be knowledgeable about the Social Security entitlement programs, the author believes, and should increase their linkages with the Social Security Administration.

Disability Evaluation↗
PubMed1998

Historical redistribution under the Social Security Disability Insurance Program.

This study uses Social Security administrative data on historical taxes and benefits by year, age, gender, and race for an ex post analysis of redistribution under the Disability Insurance (DI) program. The relationship between the taxes paid and benefits received to date under the program is described for successive cohorts as a whole and for specific race and gender groups both within cohorts and across time.

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PubMed1983

Social Security benefits; disability insurance benefits; deductions, reductions, and nonpayments of benefits--SSA. Final rules with comment period.

These regulations amend the existing regulations under which Social Security benefits payable to a disabled worker and his or her family may be reduced because of the worker's concurrent entitlement to workers' compensation benefits. They provide that entitlement to certain other public disability benefits may reduce the disability benefits paid by Social Security; that the reduction applies to the first month of concurrent entitlement regardless of the month in which we are notified of entitlement to the public disability benefit; and that the reduction applies to all months of concurrent entitlement until the disabled worker attains age 65. These regulations also provide that where a public disability law or plan provides for reduction of the public disability benefit on the basis of entitlement to Social Security disability insurance benefits that provision will preclude reduction of the Social Security benefits but only if it was in effect on February 18, 1981. These regulations implement section 2208 of the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1981 (Pub. L. 97-35).

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What physicians should know about documenting disability insurance claims.

Physicians are frequently called upon to provide opinions to insurers or to the Social Security Administration regarding disability issues. This article discusses various issues that frequently arise and offers suggestions on how to assist patients in obtaining needed benefits.

Disability Evaluation↗
PubMed1982

Federal Old-Age, Survivors, and Disability insurance benefits; limitations on benefit payments to prisoners; restrictions on disability determinations for felony-related and prison-related impairments--Social Security Administration. Proposed rules.

These proposed regulations, which are based on Pub. L. 96-473, place certain restrictions on the payment of benefits based on disability and student status to persons who have been convicted of a felony and are imprisoned and restrict the use of certain impairments in determining disability. These proposed rules specify the conditions under which benefits will not be paid to these individuals and how a finding of disability may be affected when an impairment, or the aggravation of a preexisting impairment, arises during the commission of a felony or imprisonment. Before the enactment of Pub. L. 96-473, there were no restrictions upon the payment of benefits or the making of disability determinations for these persons.

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