tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19246708.post6750252466413395861..comments2024-03-29T02:05:50.350-04:00Comments on Social Security News: Fraud Story From South FloridaUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19246708.post-92087424047280317822017-06-27T16:16:38.991-04:002017-06-27T16:16:38.991-04:00About DDS, Charles - in my state, the field office...About DDS, Charles - in my state, the field offices are farming out the DDS work all over the state, and into the neighboring states. So it would be easier for such a scheme to work, if the DDS offices are not all local. <br /><br />I, too, was shocked to learn that people trade in Seroquel, but I had a couple of homeless clients who were constantly losing their Seroquel. I learned about the abuse potential that way. Odd.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19246708.post-29296470519613944202017-06-24T13:50:00.341-04:002017-06-24T13:50:00.341-04:00Attorney purchased medical and questionable medica...Attorney purchased medical and questionable medical sources with repetitious similar conclusions have been ignored at the ODAR I practice in front of since I can remember back to the 1990's. Of course SSA uses the same retiree or limited practice doctors or mill sources all of the time. These stories are designed to give the public the impression that this is happening everywhere all of the time. This type of slanted journalism is also effective because I pretty much now hear all the time from new clients that their undeserving neighbor down the street getting benefits is ruining it for them. They don't understand that the ultimate goal of the top percentage of one percent now running and owning this country is that nobody gets anything, except them of course. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19246708.post-66738302763228800682017-06-24T05:41:34.252-04:002017-06-24T05:41:34.252-04:00Couldn't agree any more strongly with 9:40. Th...Couldn't agree any more strongly with 9:40. These doctors often get the full credibility of an ALJ intent on keeping up the pretense that ODAR is fair and impartial when such exams are a sham. Especially when it is the same doctor, time after time after time!!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19246708.post-19505208477548020532017-06-23T12:27:09.571-04:002017-06-23T12:27:09.571-04:00@ 9:40, well said@ 9:40, well saidAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19246708.post-78197898568462865892017-06-23T10:20:48.061-04:002017-06-23T10:20:48.061-04:00GREAT POINT, 9:40!GREAT POINT, 9:40!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19246708.post-89011092919901121922017-06-23T09:47:06.881-04:002017-06-23T09:47:06.881-04:00There was a similar scam in south Texas that was f...There was a similar scam in south Texas that was focused on worker's comp fraud. Some ALJ's were wondering why claimants with little wrong in their medical file were suddenly in terrible shape after traveling several hundred miles to the clinic, but apparently most of those came in to ODAR after the arrests had been made.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19246708.post-25169192856463137802017-06-23T09:40:18.894-04:002017-06-23T09:40:18.894-04:00"ALJs knew not to trust anything these physic..."ALJs knew not to trust anything these physicians said."<br /><br />Yet they routinely put the observation of a doctor running a SSA Denial Mill, that is paid by SSA, that saw a Claimant for 15 minutes (if you are lucky) and who have medical notes that make no sense and often are internally contradictory.<br /><br />Seems fair to me. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19246708.post-12587389627755707612017-06-23T07:27:36.197-04:002017-06-23T07:27:36.197-04:00There is the suggestion in the story that people w...There is the suggestion in the story that people were found disabled in some way because <br /><br />"Mendez-Villamil would falsely diagnose anyone as having a severe mental disorder that would qualify him or her to receive Social Security disability payments. ..."<br /><br />" “At one point he was disabling up to 10 people a week,” the agent says."<br /><br />as if that is all it took. In my experience, over 40 years on both sides, it is hard to imagine that one doctor reporting bi-polar disorder all by itself would be sufficient to get anyone found disabled. <br /><br />There is no way for me to verify or question the numbers of questionable or phony claims reported in the article. It just seems that it is more furthering the notion that it is easy and routine to get Social Security Disability benefits based on the say so of one doctor when that could not be farther from the truth. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19246708.post-34348131652885939522017-06-23T06:40:11.509-04:002017-06-23T06:40:11.509-04:00I would tend to agree. What the guy did was wrong ...I would tend to agree. What the guy did was wrong and he was properly caught, jailed and fined. However, it is laughable to think that SSA would find a person disabled for an affective disorder based on just a prescription for seroquel and a page or two of scribble scratched notes from a high volume mental health practice. Take a look at listing 12.04 and see how far that gets you.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com