Starla K. Tindell v. Jo Anne B. Barnhart, Commissioner, Social Security Administration

How courts have described this case

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• ruling that a licensed therapist is not a treating source as defined by the regulations
• affirming ALJ’s decision to give little weight to Plaintiff’s examining physicians’ opinions and greater weight to non-examining state agency physician’s opinion
• distinguishing Shontos and holding that the opinions of a therapist who was not “associated with a physician, psychologist, or other acceptable medical source that could potentially give him treating source status” were not entitled to greater weight
• “It is the ALJ’s function to resolve conflicts among the various treating and examining physicians”
• “It is the ALJ’s function to resolve conflicts among the various treating and examining physicians”
• “She took little medication considering the severity of her symptoms, though we note that financing her medication was often a problem.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).