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The committee will review select conditions related to the immune system and address diagnosis, treatment, and prognosis of those conditions. The select conditions should include but may not be limited to Systemic Lupus Erythematosus, Scleroderma, Polymyositis, Sjogren's syndrome, and Inflammatory Arthritis, but should exclude HIV. The committee will identify aspects of the select conditions such as average age of onset, professionally accepted diagnostic techniques and criteria, methods for differentiating severity, usual course of the disorder, secondary impairment, treatments, treatment settings, likelihood of improvement, and any limitation on the availability of treatment. For further information please see Project Scope.
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Selected Immune Disorders and Disability
Consensus Study Report
·2022
The U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA) administers the Social Security Disability Insurance program and the Supplemental Security Income program. As part of their process, immune system disorders are evaluated under Listing of Impairments 14.00 for adults and 114.00 for children. At the requ...
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