Willie M. FREEMAN, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. Margaret M. HECKLER, Secretary of Health and Human Services, Defendant-Appellee

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• holding that the determination of medical improvement requires an actual comparison of previous and current medical evidence
• finding a comparison of the original medical evidence and the new medical evidence is necessary to make a finding of improvement
• reversing when ALJ did not consider issue of improvement but instead treated case as original application for benefits
• ALJ “did not actually compare the old and new evidence but simply determined that [the claimant] did not now suffer . . . .”
• “Because the ALJ did not consider the issue of improvement but instead treated the case as though it were an original application for benefits, the case must be considered under the proper legal standard.”

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