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Alabama Disability Determination Service’s Business Process for Adjudicating Disability Claims

Audit report number
A-08-09-29163
Full report
/~assets/audits/full/a-08-09-29163.pdf
Summary report
/~assets/audits/summary/29163.pdf

Objective: To assess the Alabama Disability Determination Service’s (AL-DDS) business process for adjudicating disability claims. Our focus involved certain anonymous allegations made about AL-DDS related to, among other things, (1) its purported pressure on medical consultants to increase their disability allowance rates and (2) a process it allegedly used to circumvent the medical review of disability cases.

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