Social Security has physicians review disability cases as medical consultant’s to make opinions on individual’s abilities and limitations. However, what good is the medical consultant’s opinion if they don’t have expertise in with the disability in question.
Per Nate Craig:
… you may also want to look at the Medical Consultant’s Code attached to the State Agency’s opinion. I am finding more and more reviewing physician’s making opinions outside their professional field. Recently an ALJ relied on the State Agency’s opinion where the initial decision was made by a SDM and then affirmed by a “dermatologist” MCC of 6. The AC kicked it back with the directive for another physical CE. At the remand hearing, the same ALJ entered a decision of disability back to original onset date.
Wondering if the medical consultant on your case had the necessary expertise to make an opinion? Check the consultant’s code (next to the signature on the last page) with the list the at Social Security.
Note: the consultant’s codes appear on forms from doctors who review cases, not the doctors who exam claimants at consultative examinations.
MC/PC Specialty Codes
01 Anesthesiology
02 Ambulatory Medicine
03 Audiology
04 Cardiology
05 Cardiopulmonary
06 Dermatology
07 E.E.N.T.
08 E.N.T.
09 E.T.
10 Emergency Room Medicine
11 Endocrinology
12 Family or General Practice
13 Gastroenterology
14 Geriatrics
15 Gynecology
16 Hematology
17 Industrial Medicine
18 Infectious Diseases
19 Internal Medicine
20 Neurology
21 Neuro-Ophthalmology
22 Neuro-Psychiatry
23 Neonatology
24 Nephrology
25 Obstetrics
26 Occupational Medicine
27 Oncology
28 Ophthalmology
29 Orthopedics
30 Osteopathy
31 Pathology
32 Pediatrics
33 Physiatry
34 Physical Medicine
35 Plastic Surgery
36 Preventative Medicine
37 Psychiatry
38 Psychology
39 Public Health
40 Pulmonary
41 Radiology
42 Rehabilitative Medicine
43 Rheumatology
44 Special Senses
45 Surgery
46 Urology
47 Other
48 Speech-Language Pathology
49 Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
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