[Title 20 CFR 404.1519t]
[Code of Federal Regulations (annual edition) - April 1, 1996 Edition]
[Title 20 - EMPLOYEES' BENEFITS]
[Chapter III - SOCIAL SECURITY ADMINISTRATION]
[Part 404 - FEDERAL OLD-AGE, SURVIVORS AND DISABILITY INSURANCE (1950- )]
[Subpart P - Determining Disability and Blindness]
[Sec. 404.1519t - Consultative examination oversight.]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]




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  404.1519t
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    EMPLOYEES' BENEFITS
    SOCIAL SECURITY ADMINISTRATION
    FEDERAL OLD-AGE, SURVIVORS AND DISABILITY INSURANCE (1950- )
    Determining Disability and Blindness
  


Sec. 404.1519t  Consultative examination oversight.

    (a) We will ensure that referrals for consultative examinations and 
purchases of consultative examinations are made in accordance with our 
policies. We will also monitor both the referral processes and the 
product of the consultative examinations obtained. This monitoring may 
include reviews by independent medical specialists under direct contract 
with SSA.
    (b) Through our regional offices, we will undertake periodic 
comprehensive reviews of each State agency to evaluate each State's 
management of the consultative examination process. The review will 
involve visits to key providers, with State staff participating, 
including a program physician when the visit will deal with medical 
techniques or judgment, or factors that go to the core of medical 
professionalism.
    (c) We will also perform ongoing special management studies of the 
quality

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of consultative examinations purchased from key providers and other 
sources and the appropriateness of the examinations authorized.

[56 FR 36960, Aug. 1, 1991]

                        Evaluation of Disability