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Title Health-care utilization as a proxy in disability determination / Committee on Health Care Utilization and Adults with Disabilities, Board on Health Care Services, Health and Medicine Division ; a consensus study report of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, Medicine
Published Washington, DC : The National Academies Press, [2018]
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Description 1 online resource (1 PDF file (vii, 145 pages)) : color illustrations
Series Consensus study report
Consensus study report.
Contents Acronyms and abbreviations -- Summary -- Factors that affect health-care utilization -- Changing patterns on health insurance and health-care delivery -- Health-care utilizations for listing-level severity -- Proxies for determining listing-level severity -- Appendixes
Summary "The Social Security Administration (SSA) administers two programs that provide benefits based on disability: the Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI) program and the Supplemental Security Income (SSI) program. This report analyzes health care utilizations as they relate to impairment severity and SSA's definition of disability. Health Care Utilization as a Proxy in Disability Determination identifies types of utilizations that might be good proxies for "listing-level" severity; that is, what represents an impairment, or combination of impairments, that are severe enough to prevent a person from doing any gainful activity, regardless of age, education, or work experience"--Publisher's description
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references
Notes Online resource; title from PDF title page (viewed September 30, 2018)
Subject Social Security Disability Insurance Program (U.S.)
SUBJECT Social Security Disability Insurance Program (U.S.)
Social Security Disability Insurance Program (U.S.) fast (OCoLC)fst01589153
Subject Medical care -- Utilization -- United States
Disability insurance -- Government policy -- United States
People with disabilities -- Government policy -- United States
Social security -- United States.
Disability insurance.
Disability evaluation.
People with disabilities.
Medical policy.
Delivery of Health Care -- statistics & numerical data
Insurance, Disability
Disability Evaluation
Disabled Persons
Health Policy
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Social Security.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Social Services & Welfare.
People with disabilities.
Medical policy.
Disability insurance.
Disability evaluation.
Disability insurance -- Government policy.
Medical care -- Utilization.
People with disabilities -- Government policy.
Social security.
SUBJECT United States https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D014481
Subject United States.
Form Electronic book
Author National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (U.S.). Committee on Health Care Utilization and Adults with Disabilities, issuing body.
ISBN 9780309469197
0309469198
9780309469210
030946921X