Source: https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2006/09/29/E6-16074/administrative-review-process-for-adjudicating-initial-disability-claims-correction
Timestamp: 2018-04-21 02:49:07
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A Rule by the Social Security Administration on 09/29/2006
https://www.federalregister.gov/d/E6-16074 https://www.federalregister.gov/d/E6-16074
The final rule published on March 31, 2006 and effective on August 1, 2006 included an amendment to the first sentence of §§ 404.1526(c) and 416.926(c). However, before that rule was published, another rule published on March 1, 2006 (71 FR 10419) added a new paragraph (c) to each section and redesignated each former paragraph (c) as paragraph (d). We inadvertently failed to change the designation of paragraph (c) in § 404.1526 in the rule published on March 31, 2006. (We correctly changed § 416.926.) Thus, in the Code of Federal Regulations, this resulted in a change in § 404.1526 to the first sentence of the new paragraph (c), not paragraph (d), as intended. (The first sentence of § 416.926(d) was changed correctly.) To be sure that there is no confusion as to the intended content of either paragraph, we are printing paragraphs (c) and (d) in their entirety in this correcting amendment.
2. Amend § 404.1526 by revising paragraphs (c) and (d) to read as follows:
(c) What evidence do we consider when we determine if your impairment(s) medically equals a listing? When we determine if your impairment medically equals a listing, we consider all evidence in your case record about your impairment(s) and its effects on you that is relevant to this finding. We do not consider your vocational factors of age, education, and work experience (see, for example, Start Printed Page 57416§ 404.1560(c)(1)). We also consider the opinion given by one or more medical or psychological consultants designated by the Commissioner. (See § 404.1616.)
(d) Who is a designated medical or psychological consultant? A medical or psychological consultant designated by the Commissioner includes any medical or psychological consultant employed or engaged to make medical judgments by the Social Security Administration, the Railroad Retirement Board, or a State agency authorized to make disability determinations, and includes a medical or psychological expert (as defined in § 405.5 of this chapter) in claims adjudicated under the procedures in part 405 of this chapter. A medical consultant must be an acceptable medical source identified in § 404.1513(a)(1) or (a)(3) through (a)(5). A psychological consultant used in cases where there is evidence of a mental impairment must be a qualified psychologist. (See § 404.1616 for limitations on what medical consultants who are not physicians can evaluate and the qualifications we consider necessary for a psychologist to be a consultant.)
[FR Doc. E6-16074 Filed 9-28-06; 8:45 am]