Deskin v. Commissioner of Social Security

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• Generally, when the record contains only diagnostic evidence a medical opinion must be obtained before the Administrative Law Judge may make residual functional capacity findings.
• the Administrative Law Judge should have obtained a medical opinion translating the raw medical data in the MRI findings into functional limitations
• “[i]n making the residual functional capacity finding, the ALJ may not interpret raw medical data in functional terms”
• “To be sure, where the medical evidence shows relatively little physical impairment, an ALJ permissibly can render a commonsense judgment about functional capacity even without a physician’s assessment”
• “To be sure, where the medical evidence shows relatively little physical impairment, an ALJ permissibly can render a commonsense judgment about functional capacity even without a physician’s assessment”
• an ALJ is generally required to recontact a medical source for an opinion where there are no opinions in the record on a claimant’s functional limitations other than nonexamining agency opinions

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).