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How To Get Your Social Security Medical Records - Part 1 - Colorado Springs Social Security Disability Lawyer Tomasz Stasiuk
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How To Get Your Social Security Medical Records – Part 1By Tomasz Stasiuk on 01/03/2008 in Doctors Records & Treatment If you just filed for benefits, you may be wondering if there is anything you can do to improve your chances of being approved?
1. If your treatment was more than 12 months prior to your date of application, Social Security may not even request those older records.
In my experience, Social Security tries to get the most relevant records. Which records are the most relevant? The most recent records.
So, records of that car wreck five years ago, or that 72 hour hold for suicidal ideation three years ago, or the records from the neurologist who diagnosed your fibromyalgia when you were 20, Social Security may not even try to get those records.
2. Social Security just requests the records, it is up to the doctor’s office to actually provide them.
If the request gets lost in the mail, or if your doctor’s office misplaces the request, or ignores the request, Social Security won’t get your records.
Social Security may make repeated requests for records, or it may make one attempt and leave it at that. If the doctor’s office does not provide the records (or provides incomplete records), Social Security is not going to try too hard to get them. From their perspective, there are just too many cases to handle to try to get hard-to-find medical record.
So, the only way to make sure Social Security gets all your records, is to get them yourself.
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