Social Security Disability in US

[Olga]

Reposted from LMS group...
Social Security Disability - we do qualify

For those of you who are preparing to file or have filed and have been
denied, please refer to the link below which will take you to a page on the
US Government's SSA website. It lists "Soft Tissue Sarcoma" as a qualifing
condition. I believe this is a relatively recent addition to the
qualifying condition list

http://www.ssa.gov/disability/professio ... .htm#13_04

Medical/Professional Relations
Adult Listings (Part A)
Childhood Listings (Part B)
General Information
Evidentiary Requirements
Listing of Impairments
(overview)
Disability Evaluation Under Social Security
(Blue Book- September 2008)

13.00 Malignant Neoplastic Diseases - Adult

Section 13.00 Malignant Neoplastic Diseases

13.04 Soft tissue sarcoma.

A. With regional or distant metastases.

OR

B. Persistent or recurrent following initial antineoplastic therapy.

[Amanda]

Hi Olga,
It is covered under the blue book 13.4 the stage and diagnosis makes it a fast aproval.
It usualy takes months to get a reply from SSDI i couldnt work as a medic any longer it was hurting me to much after the sx i had and SSDI aproved me in five weeks. Not for the pain for the diagnosis alone...

Work history needs to be looked at for payment every month make sure it is a payment that is workable in your lives. The waiting period can be as long as two years for medicare. Most Sarcoma specialists and the good hospitals take medicare. If you are going to file and have medical insurance keep it and also make sure they will give you a plan that will take care of the aditional medical treatments ect that medicare doesnt cover.

parents from what i am told can file this for there children also and this may help with some of the medical bills it comes from the money the parents have i think in there retirement

No one with this diagnosis should realy need anyone to help them file this I wouldnt sugjest anyone getting a lawyer... it is easy and all you need to watch is making sure all your medical information is sent by your doctors fast. What i would do is request there medical files and have then ready an file an give them to SSDI yourself. If anyone has any questions please post back and i will help as best as i can....

[cachabamba10]

I was declared Disabled by the Federal Government here in the USA in 2010 and had to wait 2 years to get Medicare. While waiting and not being able to get any insurance through work since if I am declared disabled you are not allow to work. I had to apply for the state high risk pool insurance. I believe that by law every state is supposed to have one. Its a little bit expensive and it has a really high deductible but at least in Arkansas its pretty good. Now because of Obamacare I believe that they did away with this rule since "now everyone is supposed to be able to get insurance and not be denied due to past illness or chronic disease". In 2012 I was awarded Medicare and qualified for extra help which pretty much covers all my medical needs if they are met in state in Arkansas. But since I go to MD Anderson I have to paid for the 20% medicare doesn't cover. Its not much but for someone on disability every little cent counts. Arkansas sadly doesn't have a good sarcoma center, or at least I haven't found one that I trust. If someone knows something differently please let me know. I am not saying Arkansas doesn't have good oncologist not at all, I am just saying that we do not have a good sarcoma center that rivals places like md anderson and Dana Farber or UCSF and so on. I still love my oncologist here in Fort Smith, they are located at Mercy hospital. They do a good local job and keep me alive so I am happy with them.

[D.ap]

Hi Mario
Have you made connections with Kristi Rogers who is an ASPS patient in Arkansas?
She is very active in fund raising and legislative issues as well.

I'll give you her web site on next post
I follow her on face book as well as having a little interaction with her

Debbie

http://cancer.uams.edu/2016/06/uams-to- ... n-june-29/
Apparently not active but she lives in Bentenville Ark