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SSA DISABILITY RECORD REVIEW

A Listing, or a grid rule. The file decides which.

SSA disability record review pulls every lab value, RFC-relevant finding and treating-source opinion out of the medical evidence of record and maps them to the five-step sequence — for ALJ hearings, for DDS determinations, and for continuing disability reviews graded under the medical improvement review standard.

Click any row → the source page it cites
Evidence of record · Case #IME-4812 indexed
Adams, Timothy · SSDI hearing file
342 pp / 2 productions received logged
11 duplicate pages removed free
p.140 — wrong patient quarantined
Pages 342 Documents 27 Cited 100%

The most explicit rubric in American administrative law.

We do not build for a case type until we can name the standard that defines a correct output and the person who grades the file against it. Social Security disability publishes both, down to a printed lookup table.

That is what makes the record work tractable. The rules are fixed and public; what varies is whether the evidence to satisfy them was ever found in the file.

The rulebook and the referee
The rulebook
  • 20 CFR Pt 404 Subpt P App 1 — the Blue Book Listings, the impairment-by-impairment criteria
  • App 2 — the Medical-Vocational Grids: a literal lookup table of age × education × skill × exertion, resolving to Disabled or Not Disabled
  • §404.1520, the five-step sequential evaluation, and §404.1520c, how medical opinions are weighed
  • §404.1594, the medical improvement review standard, which governs continuing disability reviews
  • SSR 16-3p on symptom evaluation and SSR 96-8p on the residual functional capacity assessment
The referee
  • The ALJ, who holds the hearing and writes the decision the whole record is built to support
  • The Appeals Council, which reviews that decision on request
  • US District Court, where the Chenery and substantial-evidence standards mean a decision that fails to address material evidence gets remanded
Offshore chronologies price at $0.25–$0.75 a page, against a representative fee capped at $9,200 Flat 10¢/page here, duplicates free
File profile · SSA disability typical range
Pages per file400 to 5,000~2,700 mid
ProductionsDDS folder, updated treating records, post-hearingrolling
Scan qualityRe-faxed clinic notes, handwritten progress sheetsdegraded
DuplicationSame intake packet resubmitted by each sourcededuplicated
Read end to end · cited 100% · no eligibility calls
What the file actually looks like

Thousands of pages, arriving in pieces, mostly unreadable at speed.

A hearing-level file runs from about 400 pages to 5,000, with the middle of the range near 2,700. It does not arrive at once: the DDS folder lands first, treating records trickle in through the wait for a hearing date, and post-hearing submissions land after the record was supposed to be closed.

What makes it slow is not length alone. It is re-faxed clinic notes, handwritten progress sheets, and the same intake packet resubmitted by every source that ever treated the claimant.

SSA FY2024, primary source
  • 2,086,885 initial decisions
  • 289,492 ALJ dispositions
  • 1,342,105 medical continuing disability reviews
  • 45,641 at the Appeals Council
  • 15,753 in federal court
What we would build with you

Four steps, and the first one is a real file.

We do not sell a roadmap for a case type we have not read. The build starts from evidence you already hold and stops if the read does not hold up.

01

Send one real file

A hearing-level medical evidence of record set, or a CDR file with its comparison point records, in whatever shape it arrived. In the demo case that was 342 pages across 2 productions, with a wrong-patient page quarantined before the read started.

02

We return the read

A source-by-source index, the listing-level findings and the function evidence, every line cited to the page it came from. You check it against the file you already know, which is the only honest way to judge a read.

03

We scope the build

Your output template, your exhibit conventions, and the fields your briefs and pre-hearing memos actually use. If the case type is not buildable to that standard, we say so instead of shipping something that has to be re-checked line by line.

04

You run it

Your team runs files through it and reviews every output before it leaves the office. The platform organizes, cites and surfaces. The theory of the case, the listing argument and the grid application stay with the representative.

Why Medrecords AI

The rules the platform never breaks.

Medrecords AI EVERY LINE CITED
CASE #IME-4812 · ADAMS, T.342 pp
2/14 — ER visit, right knee p.4
4/18 — arthroscopic surgery p.61
p.140 — wrong patient quarantined
Medrecords AI
Read every page · cite every line

HIPAA, under a signed BAA

Every file is handled under our Business Associate Agreement, from the first byte.

Never trains a model

Your records are never used to train any AI model — ours or anyone else's.

Every line cited

If we can't cite it, we don't say it. Every sentence links to its source page.

Deleted after delivery

Files are deleted 30 days after delivery, with a full audit log of every access.

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Four capabilities behind every SSA read.

The SSA disability record review is one deliverable of the same platform that reads, sorts, and cites the whole record.

FAQ

SSA disability record review, answered.

Section 404.1594 asks a narrower question than an initial claim does: whether there has been medical improvement related to the ability to work since the comparison point decision. That makes a continuing disability review a before-and-after read of the same file. We pull the findings, treatment history and functional evidence on both sides of the comparison point and cite each one to the page it came from. Whether improvement actually occurred is the adjudicator's finding, not ours.

No. Appendix 2 is a lookup table of age, education, previous work skill and residual functional capacity, and reading a rule off it is an adjudicative act. We return the record evidence those axes turn on, each cited to its source page, including the work history and vocational detail that is usually buried in the file. Applying the table, and defending that application on review, stays with the representative or the adjudicator.

Yes. We sort the medical evidence of record into a source-by-source index with page ranges, dates and provider names, so every reference in a pre-hearing brief points at a page rather than at a memory of the file. We do not file anything with the agency and we do not draft the theory of the case. The index is a work product you review before it goes anywhere.

No. We surface the findings a listing turns on: the lab values, imaging results, clinical signs and durational evidence, each cited to the page that documents it, so the gaps are visible while there is still time to develop them. Whether Appendix 1 is met or equalled is a legal and medical judgment reserved to the adjudicator and the representative.

A cited read of the evidence that bears on function: exertional and non-exertional limitations as the treating sources described them, the treatment history behind them, and the places where two sources disagree. Section 404.1520c governs how those opinions are weighed and SSR 96-8p governs how the assessment is written, and both of those are the adjudicator's job. We organize and cite; a human decides.

Send one file. We'll tell you what we can read.

No obligation. If the case type is buildable we'll scope it; if it isn't, we'll say so.