613.Are you considered disabled if you are receiving treatment for an impairment?

If you are following prescribed treatment for your impairment, we will use our regular rules to determine whether you are disabled. Also, if no treatment has been prescribed for your impairment, we will use our regular rules to determine whether you are disabled. However, if you are not following treatment prescribed for your impairment, we will use both: 1) our regular rules to determine whether you are disabled, and 2) additional rules to analyze the prescribed treatment. You must follow treatment prescribed by your medical source(s) if this treatment is expected to restore your ability to work (or, in a child’s claims, to no longer results in marked and severe functional limitations), unless you have good cause.

Last Revised: Apr. 19, 2017