I'm hearing from North Carolina Disability Determination Services (DDS) that they have no more funds to pay for consultative medical examinations and are having some trouble paying for those which have already been held. They also lack funds to obtain existing medical records on clients. These problems will progressively slow disability determinations in this state. I imagine that the circumstances are much the same in other states.
We're seeing them make decisions without obtaining the records and without obtaining CEs on cases they otherwise would.
ReplyDeleteWell that will give a huge economic boost to lawyers!!!
DeleteHere in Indiana they've stopped the CEs (it looks like). I'm also told the DDB has a skeleton staff and is only processing critical cases
ReplyDeleteThat's crazy, I work in DPB and it is business as usual, just unable to process CDRs, however Inials, Recons, and CE and records requests have not changed.
ReplyDeleteNot surprising the states don’t have the money to cover DDS costs for more than a couple of weeks. NC won’t be the only one!
ReplyDeleteNJ CE's have been stopped for a while.
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