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Pro tip: I started writing down every date my back doctor gave me, and it changed my whole appeal
I hired a disability lawyer in Sacramento back in January after my back injury claim got denied twice. My lawyer asked me to keep a simple calendar of every doctor visit, shot, and phone call with my clinic, and I did it for about 4 months. When we sat down to prep my appeal, she said my old file had 3 different injury dates in it, but my calendar showed one clear timeline from the day I got hurt. That mismatch was a big reason the first denials happened, according to her. We filed the appeal in June with the calendar attached, and I got a hearing date in 11 weeks instead of the 8 months I was quoted at the start. Has anyone else had a lawyer tell them that dates in your own records matter more than what your doctor writes?
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jenkins.reese16d ago
Man that mismatch stuff is so real and it messes people up bad. I went through something kinda similar where my clinic had two different start dates for my neck stuff because one front desk person typed it wrong and it followed me around for like a year. Every new doctor kept asking why the dates didn't line up and I had no good answer because I wasn't keeping track of anything myself. Once I started writing stuff down in a cheap notebook, shots, phone calls, the whole thing, my own timeline finally made sense and my rep stopped getting confused looks from the other side. Sucks that we gotta do this extra work just to be believed, but glad it got you a faster hearing.
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