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I have been trying to understand the process by which a diagnosis, on which SC is predicated, is able to be changed to a diagnosis, that SC can not be attached.
(01) What pertinent Laws and regulations, must the SOC sight, to give proper reason and basis for a change in a diagnosis on which SC was predicated upon and an alternate diagnosis be used as the correction the prior diagnosis?
(02) What language must the medical report, on which the Claims Rater/Adjudicator relied upon, be used, to convey that a change in the diagnosis, on which SC was predicated upon, was warrented? Further, convey that a current diagnosis was to be used to correct the prior diagnosis?
(03) What procedure must the Rater/Adjudicator follow, in order to make such a change in diagnosis? Does the Rater/adjudicator have the authority by himself to determine that a change in a diagnosis should be done or must he receive approval from Adjudicators highter up in the chain of adjudication?
(04) Must the Claiment be given notice of the adverse decision/change of diagnosis, prior to a final determination on the claim? If so, how long and/or what type of a notice is required, before a final decision can be made?
Your understanding of this change of diagnosis process and/or sighting of pertinent Laws and Regualtions and the procedural steps necessary for such a change in diagnosis will be of great help I'm sure.
I have found many instances (court cases), Laws and Regualtion that pretain to a change of diagnosis of a previously SC disease and or injury, but nothing pretaining to an original claim for SC of a disease or injury that is documented in-service but before SC could be attached, the diagnosis was changed to one for which SC could not be attached.
As thoughs who have read my prior posts on this issue, they know that I believe that the process, laws, regulations, that should have been used in my original claim where not used and the ones that were sighted in the statement of the case, were insufficient to give reason and basis for a change of diagnosis to be proper and/or warrented and thusly used to deny SC for the original in-service diagnosis.
Each time I think I have my claim figured out, something I have read and re-read here, from your replys clicks in my head and I have to rethink everything, well almost everything, so that I am able to provide the correct information and reasoning, so that my claim can prevail or at least have a strong enough claim to prevail.
It's after 4:00 a.m. it's one of those sleepless nights, dispited having taken all my medications, so I can not be sure that all this makes any sinse, but I hope it does. enough time has passed, so I can now take another pill to help me sleep, maybe now I can lay down and not just toss and turn, with my thoughts still rasing away. Good night or good morning, which ever is your poison.
Rockhound Rider a.k.a. Jim
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