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ptsd Read Those C&ps Carefully
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Bill (USAF Retired)
I'm currently at 90% and being evaluated for TDIU. The doctor did a C&P psych eval (depression, PTSD) plus a Beck Depression Inventory II (BDI-II). FWIW, he said I'm unemployable.
Two weeks later, my medical record had the BDI-II score but no C&P eval. Spoke with the doc and he said he had transmitted it to VARO but hadn't cut and pasted it into my medical record.
Uh oh. He promised to cut and paste it into my medical record. He kept his word and it was in there the following day.
Good thing I checked! He answered the question "Is patient capable of managing benefit payments to own best interests" as NO. I touched base with him again and he agreed he'd made a mistake while doing the checklist. He did an addendum right in front of me and put it in my computerized record.
The take away lesson: Don't be passive, if docs are saying stuff about you to VARO you should know what's being said and be ready to rebut any areas of disagreement. All it takes is one thing like that to stick in your record and you can spend a lot of time trying to undo it later.
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