{"id":925,"date":"2014-09-29T20:01:57","date_gmt":"2014-09-29T20:01:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newlindisability.com\/?p=925"},"modified":"2023-09-11T11:16:39","modified_gmt":"2023-09-11T17:16:39","slug":"what-is-a-social-security-disability-medical-consultant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newlindisability.com\/blog\/social-security-disability-medical-consultant\/","title":{"rendered":"What Is A Social Security Disability Medical Consultant?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Social Security Disability benefits are designed to help those who have suffered medical conditions that prevent them from working, but who determines eligibility?<\/p>\n<p>Many people believe that if their doctor has diagnosed their condition and medical evidence of the diagnosis can be provided, they should be approved for benefits. However, this isn\u2019t the case. Doctors can\u2019t determine if people are eligible for Social Security Disability\u2014only <strong><a href=\"\/\/www.lawyersforsocialsecurity.com\/medical-consultants.php\">Social Security Disability medical consultants<\/a><\/strong> can make these determinations.<\/p>\n<p>According to the <a href=\"\/\/www.socialsecurity.gov\/OP_Home\/cfr20\/404\/404-1616.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Social Security Administration (SSA)<\/a>, a medical consultant is a person who makes disability determinations for the agency. Most are licensed physicians, but many are trained in specific areas of medicine and meet the requirements of their specialty areas.<\/p>\n<p>They make their determinations based on the standards for the medical conditions outlined in the SSA\u2019s Blue Book.<\/p>\n<p>This is why it\u2019s important to have a <strong><a href=\"\/\/www.lawyersforsocialsecurity.com\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener\">Social Security Disability lawyer<\/a><\/strong> examine your case prior to filing for benefits. A lawyer can help make sure the evidence and documentation presented in your filing is likely to meet SSA requirements.<\/p>\n<p>At Newlin Disability, we have worked with thousands of Social Security Disability applicants, and we know how to navigate the SSA\u2019s application process. Find out how we can help you by calling our legal staff.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Social Security Disability benefits are designed to help those who have suffered medical conditions that prevent them from working, but who determines eligibility? Many people believe that if their doctor has diagnosed their condition and medical evidence of the diagnosis can be provided, they should be approved for benefits. However, this isn\u2019t the case. Doctors [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":4666,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[49],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newlindisability.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/925"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newlindisability.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newlindisability.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newlindisability.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newlindisability.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=925"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newlindisability.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/925\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5277,"href":"https:\/\/newlindisability.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/925\/revisions\/5277"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newlindisability.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4666"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newlindisability.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=925"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newlindisability.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=925"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newlindisability.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=925"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}