Cardiovascular Disability Updating the Social Security Listings (2010) / Chapter Skim
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1 Introduction
1 Introduction
Pages 35-38
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program, claimants also include children under age 18 who have a physical or mental impairment or combination of impairments that cause "marked and severe functional limitations." The full evaluation of these claimants requires consideration of, and judgments about, functional limitations in six domains of functioning. To reduce the administrative burden of evaluating the disability of millions of claimants each year, SSA uses a screening tool called the Listing of Impairments, also known as the Listings, to quickly identify claimants with medical conditions so severe that they can be allowed benefits without going through the full evaluation process.
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The committee's membership includes a wide range of expertise able to evaluate cardiovascular disability criteria, including coronary artery disease, valvular heart disease, heart failure, congenital heart disease (including adult) , peripheral vascular disease, cardiac rehabilitation and stress testing, interventional cardiology, arrhythmia, pulmonary arterial hypertension, nursing, and psychiatric comorbidities.
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IntRodUCtIon BOX 1-1 Cardiovascular Committee's Statement of Work IOM shall form a Consensus Committee to perform a focused review of the medical literature to determine the latest standards of care, the latest technol- ogy for the understanding of disease processes, and the latest science demon strating the effect of cardiovascular disorders on patients' health and functional capacity . . . The primary purpose of the Consensus Committee is to make concrete recom mendations that are designed to improve the utility of the Cardiovascular Listings for evaluating cardiovascular disability claims by improving the sensitivity and specificity of the listing criteria to identify individuals who meet SSA's definition of disability . . .
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Chapter 3 provides statistics on cardiovascular disease prevalence and incidence as well as trends in cardiovascular claims for Social Security disability benefits. Chapter 4 describes the committee's approach to evaluating the current Social Security cardiovascular listings disability criteria and designing recommendations to improve them.
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